Voters queued up before 6 a.m. at Tabuk City in Kalinga

BAGUIO CITY––Voters queued up as early as 5 a.m. on Monday, May 9, to select their leaders on election day in this Kalinga city, said John Martin, Tabuk’s election officer.

As of 7 a.m., the exercise was peaceful, and “all vote-counting machines have been running smoothly,” he said.

Kalinga province, which has 154,423 registered voters, is an 8-hour commute from Baguio City. Its only city has 70,281 voters.

Classified under the least strict Alert Level No. 1, Kalinga had no active cases recorded as of May 8.

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