Can't wait for turn, candidates cut long queues of voters to vote ahead

Some candidates seemed to have lost patience waiting to get their turn to vote and cut lines to get ahead of disgruntled voters waiting in long queues for hours. But a candidate, chose to stay in line during the first nationwide automated election that opened at 7 a.m. Monday. Quezon City mayoral bet Herbert "Bistek" Bautista of the Liberal Party (LP) cut lines and voted ahead. While some voters had waited for their turns for over two and a half hours in a precinct in North Susana Clubhouse, Old Balara in Quezon City, Bautista finished casting his vote in about five minutes, a voter in the area who requested anonymity said.

GMANews.TV tried but failed to reach Bautista for comments through his cell phone. Nationalist People's Coalition vice presidential bet Loren Legarda was also reported to have cut the line at a precinct in Potrero, Malabon, seemingly ignoring a signage bearing a reminder for voters to fall in line. Unlike Bautista and Legarda, LP senatorial bet Risa Hontiveros, in the same precinct as Bautista, stayed in line even if she had a cast on her left leg for an injured ligament resulting from a fall during her party's miting de avance last Friday. — Jacques Jimeno/LBG, GMANews.TV