A Philippines Election Works
With a chaotic Filipino election now history except for the final counting, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo heaved a sigh of relief when she fed her ballot into a machine – an expression so spontaneous it captured what many Filipinos were hoping for in the country's first automated elections.
At 7:30 am on Tuesday, with 71 percent of the votes counted,…
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