Ben D. Kritz
An eyebrow-raising headline from this very paper on Tuesday morning: “Election peaceful despite shootings, ballot snatching.” This was the assessment of various police and election officials of the nationwide voting for local barangay (village) positions; other than a handful of murders, at least one public school being used as a polling place being destroyed by arson, most of one entire town in Mindanao being unable to have an election because of poll workers refusing to show up for safety reasons, and a couple dozen reports of illegal campaigning and voting fraud, the whole thing went pretty well.