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The regional director of the Commission on Elections in the Cordillera Administrative Region (Comelec-CAR), according to sources, allegedly distributed money to some local Comelec officials in the region to ensure that election results would favor Gloria...
When Congress reopens late July, Bayan Muna and two other progressive party-list groups will spearhead the repeal of the oil deregulation law and a review of the country’s commitments to the GATT-WTO. Another party, Suara Bangsamoro, is set to file charges against...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Employees of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) led by the Alliance of COMELEC Employees in Service (ACES) called on newly-appointed Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes to heed their appeal that they immediately be...
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Brillantes cannot just hold another fully automated elections even without banishing "the ghosts and weaknesses" of previous elections, particularly that of the 2010 automated elections. “He must come up with a comprehensive report at the soonest time possible, lest he be accused of merely sweeping under the rug all those cases of poll irregularities,” said We Watch, a watchdog.
News Release January 16, 2011 The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on new Comelec chief Atty. Sixto Brillantes to “clean up Comelec and rectify the systemic problems of fraud and corruption that have become the hallmark of the poll body.”...
NEWS RELEASE 15 January 2011 A workers’ poll watchdog dared the successor of retired Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo to unlock the “secrets” of the May 10, 2010 automated polls and to hold those accountable for the troubles during last...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Employees of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) led by their union, the Alliance of Comelec Employees in Service (ACES), urged the Aquino government on Friday to address the needs of its rank and file.
The right to public information suffered with Comelec’s lack of transparency. The poll body failed – and continues to fail – to meet the transparency requirements of the election system by its intransigent and unexplained refusal to deny citizens’ groups access to...
Press Statement July 21, 2010 The Comelec decision allowing Mikey Arroyo, presidential son and former district representative, to sit as a partylist representative will ultimately destroy the partylist system. It is a gross violation of the partylist law and...
PRESS RELEASE July 21, 2010 Youth group Anakbayan voiced its concern today over a staunch pro-Noynoy family whose members are now holding influential positions in the new Aquino government. Butch Abad, a former DepEd secretary under Gloria Arroyo, now heads the...
BY ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com MANILA -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic-TIM have been bragging that the May 10 was a success and was peaceful and orderly. But for the Computer Professionals Union (CPU) it was frustrating. “And the way the...
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat.com The faint smile on Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo during the evening of May 10 indicated feelings of relief and pride that they were able to push through with the automated elections. A lot of people were...
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Bulatlat.com The name of the game these days is “Will she or won’t she get away with it?” She of course refers to the woman with the unique voice and manner of speaking, caught redhanded via a wiretapped phone conversation, trying to...
By CHERYLL D. FIEL / Davao Today
The City Board of Canvassers in Davao lowered the threshold of votes necessary for the winning candidates to be proclaimed winners. The Board proclaimed the winners five hours after it resumed counting of votes on Wednesday, May 12.
By GERMELINA LACORTE / Davao Today
Carmen Gultiano, a voter in one of the precinct clusters at the Daniel Aguinaldo National High School, came out of her precinct tired, agitated and unable to hide her frustrations after spending six hours just to vote. Gultiano arrived at her precinct at eight o’clock in the morning and was only able to vote at two thirty in the afternoon.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL / Davao Today
It was not the machine glitches that many people were worried about but the poll clerk’s hunt for names of registered voters and other verification procedures that slowed down the voting process in the recently-concluded elections.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Election automation was able to fix what is happening inside the precincts, however, it was not able to solve the politics of guns, goons, and gold outside of it.
BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com There are clumsy attempts to create a bandwagon effect by mobilizing the pro-GMA local government officials to manufacture millions of bogus voters’ signatures; by creating media hype through paid hacks...
By RITCHE T. SALGADO
With reports from JOSEPH BACUD
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Region 7 boasted of an 80 percent voter turnout. Pagbabago! Cebu said a number of votes were disenfranchised due to the Comelec's inability to foresee simple and preventable problems.
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