Sara-Rody team top school mock elections

THE tandem of Davao City Vice Mayor Sara Z. Duterte and Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte were declared winners in the mock elections recently held at the Ateneo de Davao University (Addu).

Participating the mock elections were students, teachers, staff and personnel of Addu. Participants cast their votes for the top two local and national positions during the March 13 and 15 exercise.

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Senator Benigno Simon "Noynoy" C. Aquino also won the presidential bid and Senator Manuel "Mar" A. Roxas on the vice presidential position.

Vice Mayor Duterte got a total of 1,097 votes against her rival Speaker Prospero C. Nograles who only garnered 167.

For the vice mayoralty post, Rodrigo Duterte got 1,150 votes trailed by de Guzman who got 111 votes.

In the presidential race, Aquino got 938 votes, followed by former National Defense secretary Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro with 686 votes.
Senator Richard "Dick" Gordon came in third with 152 votes, followed by survey leader Senator Manuel "Manny" Villar with 81, former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada with 61, Eduardo "Bro Eddie" Villanueva with 23, John Carlos "JC" de los Reyes with 11, Nicanor "Nick" Perlas with 10 and Ma. Ana. Consuelo "Jamby" Madrigal with 3.

In the vice president race, Roxas had a clearer lead over his contenders with 1,342 votes, followed by Makati City Mayor Jejomar "Jojo" Binay with 315, Bayani "BF" Fernando with 150, Senator Loren Legarda with 80, Perfecto "Kidlat" Yasay with 26, Eduardo "Edu" Manzano with 22, Jose "Jay" Sonza with 3, and Dominador "Jun" Chipeco.

The mock polls were done using the customized version of the open-source voting system that the University of the Philippines-Diliman used for its Halalan sa Diliman 2010, said Fr. Kim Lachica, head of the technical working group for Addu's mock elections.

Addu Computer Science division head Rey Aliño said: "To guarantee the integrity of the mock election results, the voters were issued a computer-generated password upon presentation of the barcoded University ID card."

Aside from the mock elections, Addu will also conduct a survey with 400 respondents, College faculty staff and researcher Mae Fernandez said.

"Mas magiging malawak yung scope natin. Other than the presidential and vice presidential positions, idadagdag natin yung sentoriables, congress, and the mayoral and vice mayoral positions. Hindi lang yung name yung ia-identify ng respondents kundi pati reason kung bakit nila binoto ito," Fernandez said. (JCZ)