Congrats to Duterte on the win

Philippines election: Anti-crime hardliner Duterte claims win - BBC News

It's not official yet. But he is claiming the win.

 

Just changed my name to Pablo Ochoa...

 

It's been nice knowing you Pat, err, I mean Pablo.

 

In other news not making the mainstream yet reports of massive voter irregularities. A number of reports of votes for Duterte switching to Roxas but nothing major on that. But the real catch is a lot of reports from voters in precincts claiming that VP and Senator votes being switched to Roxas supporters.

Its looking like they saw they couldn't beat Duterte so instead they are fixing the Senate and the VP to be full Roxas buddies. Then of course w/o a supportive VP and an anti Duterte Senate it will really be hard for Duterte to do much. Further if some accident happens to Duterte then hey, we know who's running the country again....

 

Closing Down Sale Shabu buy one take one, all stocks must clear,owner moving to another country

 

My wife voted yesterday and when she came back she told me she just made it before the lunch break, the officials told the long queue to come back later as they were shutting it down for lunch ! is this normal ?

 

That does sound rather strange. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions though because the first thing to pop into my head was "normal for where?".

 

Flor took 4 hours to vote yesterday at San Jose, last time she got there at 8am and voted at 5pm. no wonder there is a poor turn out . No way i would stand in the sun for 1 hour let alone 8 hours