3,000 Lucban voters fail to vote

LUCBAN, Quezon: About 3,000 registered voters failed to cast their votes here after they could not locate their names in the official list, in addition to glitches incurred by the vote counting machines (VCMs), and questionable ballots, which prompted the incumbent mayor to request for a failure of elections.

Reelectionist municipal mayor Celso Olivier Dator said he manifested a request to the local Commission on Elections (Comelec) to declare a failure of elections after the number of complaints steadily rose, reaching thousands as of 11 a.m. on Monday.