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...never thought I would be disenfranchised." JOSE CUISIA jr, former Central Bank of Philippines governor and a director of Namfrel, an election-monitoring group, who wasn't able to cast his ballot in last week's presidential election, which was marred by charges of cheating and a slow vote count, because his name was missing from a list of registered voters...
...fact, by past Filipino standards, the vote was remarkably free of bloodshed or fraud. The independent election-watchdog organization NAMFREL counted only 40 voting irregularities in more than 86,000 polling stations scattered throughout the country. Even more striking, despite the recent breakdown in negotiations between the Communist rebels and the government, the cease-fire that went into effect between the two sides last Dec. 10 held through the election...
...theft. More than a day after the polls closed, the official vote count by the Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had slowed to a crawl. Communications linking that effort to a parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many parts of the country, private citizens spent the night after the vote protecting ballot boxes with their bodies. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who headed a 20- member delegation of official U.S. observers at the election exercise, declared that a "very disturbing pattern...
...count by the National Movement for Free Elections, a poll-watchers' group known as Namfrel, had Aquino ahead by 6,658,838 votes to 5,971,693, a lead of 53 percent to 47 percent, with 60 percent of precincts reported...
...NAMFREL tally represented 49.14 percent of the Philippines' 86,036 precincts. Final election results from this nation of 7,100 islands are not expected for days...