First-time voters were dismayed to find lack of coordination, long queues, malfunctioning vote-counting machines (VCMs), and other irregularities.
As of noon today, election watchdog Kontra Daya Southern Tagalog has monitored at least 135 cases of electoral anomalies within the region, mostly from Laguna province.
Rather than blame the poor and the victims, let us blame and seek solutions for this obviously flawed, foreign-patented, non-transparent automated elections system in an elite democracy.
“We expect the fraud that will happen, because Comelec allows it and made it even easier to do.”
“The irregularities monitored during the final testing and sealing of the PCOS machines and the lack of a source code review by local groups before the actual conduct of the elections put the credibility of Monday’s elections under a cloud of doubt.” – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luz Ilagan
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“We need to ask the crucial questions which Mayuga failed to ask. We need to pursue and undertake legislative remedies to ensure that election fraud is stamped out...” – Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño
BY BENJIE OLIVEROS (Bulatlat.com) The government cannot merely ignore the results of opinion surveys and issues raised against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and simply claim that criticisms against her are false and the handiwork of the opposition. This seems to be a bad...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Military rebels are “silently observing” the people’s reaction to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s charter change maneuvers. “If the people will strongly react against it, there might be another attempt of military...
BY GMANEWS.TV Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 17, 2007 - 4:19pm The National Police on Thursday placed on restrictive custody five members of the Calabarzon Regional Special Operations Group (RSOG) tagged as suspects in the burning of a school...
BY GMANews.tv Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 17, 2007 - 6:15pm The Philippine government failed to redeem itself from suspicions that it "benefited" from such illegal practices in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in 2004 with...
BY KAREN PAPELLERO Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 17, 2007 - 11:14 p.m. "How can we harass them when they have the guns?" "They delayed our trip and hindered us from reaching the areas where we want to observe the elections. Instead of aiding us in this...
The farcical nature of the electoral process in this country has been laid bare, much worse than even our most dire predictions. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO STREETWISE / BUSINESS WORLD* POSTED BY BULATLAT Vol. VII, No. 15 May 20-26, 2007 After the May 14 elections,...
Contrary to government claims, electoral fraud and violence are not integral to Philippine culture and politics. It is perpetrated by those who profit from the existing system of Philippine politics and governance. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat ANALYSIS Vol. VII, No....
Reports reaching the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) show foreign observers witnessing incidents of cheating, voters' disenfranchisement and other election violations. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE Posted by Bulatlat...
Summary of Cases on Election Related Fraud and Violence allegedly involving elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP) and private armed goons maintained by political warlords By the Monitoring, Documentation, and...
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH Vol. VII, No. 15 May 20-26, 2007 Just four days after the polls, Jubien Abrena, 25, poll watcher of Bayan Muna in Magara, Roxas in the province of Palawan, was abducted by the Naval Intelligence Security Group-Western...
BY DAVAOTODAY.COM Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH Vol. VII, No. 15, May 20-26, 2007 MANILA—Task Force Poll Watch, an anti-fraud and monitoring group formed by partylist groups, reported this morning massive vote-shaving in at least 10 provinces, resulting in 73...
BY BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 21, 2007 - 12:20pm A lawyer and convenor of the multi-sectoral group the Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace), Beverly Selim-Musni, pointed to the Macapagal-Arroyo government as being behind the bombing which hit...
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