{"id":182521,"date":"2018-09-22T21:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182521"},"modified":"2018-09-22T21:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:50:52","slug":"no-failure-village-polls-marawi-precincts-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/22\/no-failure-village-polls-marawi-precincts-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"No failure of village polls in all Marawi precincts: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_177336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177336\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177336\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/640px-Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cAll polling precincts in #BSKE2018 in Marawi opened and closed on time, with 177 out of 177 clustered precincts reporting successful closing of the polls, as of 3:40 PM. #ZeroFailures,\u201d Jimenez said in a statement Saturday evening. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work\/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday reported that all 177 clustered precincts in Marawi City for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) have opened and closed on time.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said all polling precincts in the war-torn city have functioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll polling precincts in #BSKE2018 in Marawi opened and closed on time, with 177 out of 177 clustered precincts reporting successful closing of the polls, as of 3:40 PM. #ZeroFailures,\u201d Jimenez said in a statement Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez earlier said that elections are proceeding smoothly and polling precincts have opened on time.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that no untoward incidents have been reported, as of Saturday noon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 11:30 today, field reports from COMELEC officials currently in Marawi City, directly supervising the conduct of the #2018BSKE in Marawi, indicate that all polling precints opened all time and the elections are proceeding smoothly with no untoward incidents,\u201d Jimenez said in an earlier statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo turn-out data is available at this time, however anecdotal reports indicate healthy voter turn outs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Only one teacher in Barangay Paridi failed to report for duty on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA trained member of the PNP substituted and the precinct opened for polls on time,\u201d Jimenez added.<\/p>\n<p>There are a total of 50,893 registered voters for the barangay polls while a total of 25,491 are eligible to participate in the SK elections in Marawi.<\/p>\n<p>Regular voters elected one barangay chairman and seven barangay kagawads while youth voters picked one SK chairman and seven SK kagawads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday reported that all 177 clustered precincts in Marawi City for the Barangay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":177336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}