A Filipino soldier stands guard polling stations during midterm election

A soldier stands guard on the highway to polling stations during the midterm election in the southern Philippine town of Datu Unsay in Maguindanao, May 13, 2013. The Philippine midterm elections commenced across the country on Monday. More than 52,000 Filipinos trooped to their election precincts Monday to cast their votes for both local and national positions. <Xinhua/JEMA>

Indigenous peoples living around the slopes of Mt. Pinatubo volcano known as Aetas, cast their ballots through an automated machine known as PCOS at the country’s midterm election at a polling precinct at a remote village of Zambales province, about 250 kilometers (156 miles) northwest of Manila, Philippines Monday May 13, 2013. More than 50 million Filipinos are expected to troop to polling centers to elect senators, congressmen and down to municipal mayors for the country’s midterm elections. <AP Photo/Bullit Marquez>

Election workers explain to voters a procedure after one of the automated machines known as PCOS malfunctioned at a covered court used as a voting center during mid-term elections at a Manila suburb, Philippines on Monday May 13, 2013. The country is electing local officials from senators to congressmen and down to municipal mayors during today’s mid-term elections. <AP Photo/Aaron Favila>