MOV01037
Channel: FanSmiles
Date: 2016-05-09

Volunteers are assisting thousands of disenfranchised voters in the town of Lucban Quezon, Philippines, where a mayor with an environmental vision has kept corporations and polluters in check. In a town which the 2010 census says has 46,700 residents, on May 9th, 2016, election day at 11 AM, already 2,000 plus voters have signed the complaint list because they were not allowed to vote. All voting machines are broken, lines at the local university are 300 plus long and the election commission is nowhere to be found. While voters are on the election lists, hundreds are being denied the right to vote and are asked to vote on a piece of paper and hand it out to the officials. Many voters refuse. Tension is high and police forces are in the background.