I decided to visit Rosario Elementary School first, as the Pasig mayor and his wife and mayoral candidate are expected to vote there.
We had two tasks for the coverage: do live tweets for the Inquirer and submit stories for the paper.
Note: Tweets dated May 12 were entered May 13. Twitter's time is 8 hours delayed.
Here are some of the photos I took during my observation at different schools in Pasig City.
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| Outgoing Pasig Mayor Bobby Eusebio with wife incoming mayor Maribel Eusebio.
After the live coverage, we had to submit stories to summarize the events of the day, and here are the articles I submitted to the desk:
by Mariejo Mariss Ramos
Day-long rainfall marked the day of elections in Pasig City, literally and otherwise, as minor flooding and PCOS glitches interrupted polls in some precincts.
In Rosario Elementary School, the PCOS machine at Precinct No. 325, where incumbent mayor Bobby Eusebio and family are expected to vote, failed to accept the first few ballots. Unscanned ballots were left by voters with the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI). Voting was temporarily stopped and resumed twenty minutes after when detected problem with CF card was resolved by a PCOS technician.
Several precincts in the same school experienced paper jam and faulty printing which delayed the start of the polls, but glitches were immediately resolved by technical experts.
Precinct #7 of Pinagbuhatan Elementary School, the second largest voting center in Pasig, also experienced voting delay due to problems with voting machine initialization. The glitch was corrected immediately.
Meanwhile, flood water blocked voting areas in Nagpayong Elementary School late in the afternoon. Nagpayong ES is the largest polling area in Pasig with almost 29, 600 voters. Rowdy and flooded precincts discouraged people to vote, while some were forced to go back to their homes and postpone voting for several hours.
With almost 355,000 registered voters in 41 clustered precincts, Pasig City voting centers are usually characterized by overcrowding and long lines. In anticipation to this, people set to vote were given priority numbers and asked to stay in designated waiting areas while their numbers are being called.
by Mariejo Mariss Ramos
While people flock in different voting precincts in Pasig even before the official poll starts for early casting of votes, some politicians decided to wait before the crowd begins to die down in their respective polling centers.
Pasig City incumbent mayor Robert “Bobby” Eusebio arrived with his wife and mayoral bet Maribel Eusebio at Rosario Elementary School Precinct 325 at 1:30 in the afternoon. Bobby was wearing a casual polo shirt in blue, while Maribel was wearing a polo in red, the two's official campaign colors. The couple arrived with their bodyguards and aide who were instructed to just wait outside the polling precinct. The BEIs allowed them to enter the precinct and cast their votes immediately, since the waiting area has no pending voters.Bobby and Maribel voted in ease and proceeded to the school's quadrangle to greet the small crowd.
Maribel told the Inquirer she anticipates high voter turn-out in Pasig, confident that Pasiguenos' vote are worth casting on her and the rest of her team.
Three hours before, former Pasig mayors Vicente and Soledad Eusebio voted together at the same precinct, and weren't asked to fall in line anymore as they are both senior citizens.
In Pinagbuhatan Elementary School, congressional candidate Orlando “Jun” Salatandre voted around 2 p.m. at Clustered Precinct #9. Only a bodyguard and a photographer accompanied Salatandre in casting his vote, as influx of voters begin to lessen at the usually overcrowded polling center.
Incumbent Congressman Roman Romulo reportedly voted with wife, Valenzuela Council Shalani Soledad-Romulo, at the Admin Hall of Valle Verde III, Pasig City.
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