VP bet Loren Legarda casts her ballot in Malabon Monday morning. Photo by Marie Lozano, ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 1) - Some registered voters in Malabon got irritated when Nacionalista Party (NP) vice-presidential guest candidate Loren Legarda went ahead of the queue at the precinct when polls opened on Monday.

Some supporters in Potrero, Malabon cheered "Loren, Loren, Loren" when she arrived, while other voters reminded Legarda that she should fall in line.

"Ma'am, pila po kayo," some voters said.

"Ay pila ba to, ay sorry ha? Gusto nyo akong pumila, balik ako sa pila? Sobrang bagal ba?" replied Legarda.

Despite the appeal of those who were in line, Legarda still proceeded to vote ahead of them.

Later, Legarda called ABS-CBN entertainment reporter Marie Lozano, who covered the event, to say that she was merely ushered into her precinct. The media that crowded her also led her to go direct to her precinct.

Lozano later tweeted that Legarda was not the only VP bet who did not fall in line. She said there were also those who pointed out that Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay also went ahead of the queue at their respective polling precincts.

Long lines at polling places is a common sight in many areas of the country, with queueing time ranging from 30 minutes to four hours and more. Senior citizens are given priority in the queue, but everyone else has to endure the long lines and wait a long time.

Meanwhile, Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III chose to fall in line in his designated polling precinct in Tarlac.

He had to wait for around 6 hours before he could cast his vote since the PCOS machine deployed in his precinct malfunctioned.

Aquino said that they were informed that 2 hours since his precinct opened, only 100 people had been able to cast their votes.

He said they were told that there was no spare PCOS machine, and voters had to wait for a Smartmatic-TIM technician to fix the problem before they can actually vote.

Due to the automated election system, the Commission on Elections clustered 5 to 7 precincts into one. As a result of having more voters per precinct, the poll body prolonged voting hours from 7 am to 3 pm to 7 am to 6 pm.

Under the manual system, there were 300,000 precincts; now, there are 76,347 precincts. The number of registered voters, meanwhile, rose from around 45 million to an all-time high of 50 million. -- With reports from Marie Lozano, ABS-CBN News and Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News