Authorities hunt 20 men who stole 10 VCMs in Sultan Kudarat
JUST TESTING. A poll watcher inserts a ballot into a vote counting machine at a mock election in Metro Manila. INQUIRER PHOTO
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao—Police and military authorities are hunting down about 20 men who barged inside the Maguindanaon Elementary School in Barangay Katuli around 6 a.m. and took at least 10 vote-counting machines (VCMs).
Senior Insp. Esmael Madin, the town police chief, said the men forcibly entered the school premises and took the election paraphernalia.
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Estellita Orbase, acting election officer of Sultan Kudarat town, said the incident stalled voting at the school, where 700 voters were waiting to vote. /rga
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