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Members of the Baguio Pride Network (BPN), an alliance of gay and lesbian organizations, individuals, friends and families in Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet, denounce during a rally this week the Commission on Election's invalidation of Ang Ladlad Partylist....
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat.com Overseas Absentee Voting was implemented in 2004 so that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could exercise their right to vote. But since then, Migrante International has been criticizing the government's insincerity in...
Whether modernized or not, no election system will bring democracy to the people and a just government elected unless the systemic problem of fraud which is run by powerful politicians in and out of government is addressed decisively and comprehensively. By the...
"COMELEC should not leave the 2010 Automated Elections in the hands of foreign control," said Mr. Rick Bahague, National Coordinator of the Computer Professionals' Union (CPU) in reaction to the pull out of Smartmatic's local partner, Technology Information...
Philippine elections have always been tainted with fraud, marred by violence, dominated by political dynasties, and characterized by broken promises of politicians. It has never resulted in the betterment of the lives of majority of the Filipino people. But the way...
The deployment of troops in Metro Manila completes the militarization of the whole countryside which has been intensifying under Arroyo. The whole blueprint smacks of a bigger plan in the offing. It is even more chilling that local executives have shown no sign of...
BY AUBREY MAKILAN Posted 3:50 p.m., March 21, 2007 Bayan Muna (People First) member Alberto Corbes filed election-related and criminal charges today against the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deployed in Lupang Pangako, Payatas, Quezon City....
The reports of massive fraud are staring the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the face and Comelec Chair Benjamin Abalos, Sr. and Commissioner Rene Sarmiento still refuse to conduct a thorough investigation and act swiftly to prevent further damage. And they...
The Optical Mark Reader (OMR) that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will use for the automated elections system (AES) in the May 2010 polls has not been fully proven as tamper- and fraud-free, will encourage wholesale cheating, and will not ensure a...
Automation and computerization are supposed to make life easier. It is supposed to speed up processes by minimizing human intervention. After all, machines are more efficient, more precise, and do not tire easily compared to humans. However, this is not the case with the first Philippine Automated Election System.
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