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Abra town selects barangay leaders the indigenous way
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
WHILE thousands of barangays all over the country still await the final results of the October 25 polls, eight of 10 barangays in Tubo town in Abra already knew their new set of officials about a month before election day. »Read More -
Don’t buy PCOS from Smartmatic, Comelec urged
By YVONNE T. CHUA AN election watchdog has this piece of advice for the Commission on Elections: Don’t buy the counting machines used in the May 10 elections. Ramon Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform (IPER), instead urged the Comelec to just lease the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines »Read More
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Win or lose, Binay makes history
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS and YOUTHVOTEPHILIPPINES WHATEVER the final outcome of the tightly contested vice presidential race, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay has made history by being the first local official to be possibly catapulted to a top national position, just a breath away from the presidency. Unlike another former mayor, Joseph Estrada, Binay bypassed Congress in his quest »Read More
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Mindanao’s elected: Same faces, same family names
By MINDANEWS DAVAO CITY .—The “new” set of Mindanao’s top officials is not exactly new. Of 25 Mindanao governors, 16 are reelected, two are brothers of the outgoing governors and the rest are “recycled” or those who ran for other posts after completing, usually, a nine-year, three-term service. Of 33 city mayors, 19 are reelected, »Read More
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Watchdog says Comelec dilly-dallying contributed to election violence
By LUZ RIMBAN THE Commission on Elections is partly to blame for election-related violent incidents because it acted too late to put critical areas, including the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), under its control, said an election watchdog group. The Consortium on Electoral Reform (CER) said the Comelec ran out of time to implement »Read More
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Vote2010: VERA Files’ Live Blog (May 9 to May 19)
Vote2010: VERA Files’ Election Coverage READ THE EARLIER POSTS. CLICK HERE. »Read More
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Closely monitor May 28 special polls, group says
By JONALYN FORTUNO and PAULINE DYCOCO WITH the upcoming special elections in 11 areas, a youth group is urging all sectors to continue monitoring the polls, especially in ensuring that all election returns (ERs) be accounted for. “While these areas are now undergoing or are set to undergo special elections, we call on the public »Read More
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Padaca downplays automated elections’ success, cries poll fraud
By PAULINE DYCOCO THE counting of votes may have been quick, but the country’s first-ever automated elections were far from being successful. This was the sentiment of outgoing Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca, who lost her reelection bid to Faustino Dy III, a scion of the powerful “Dy Dynasty” in the province. “Define successful? Just because »Read More
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Maguindanao’s new gov wants special census: “physical count of people, one by one”
By CAROLYN ARGUILLAS Mindanews BULUAN, Maguindanao. – Governor-elect Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu is requesting the National Statistics Office (NSO) to have a special census for Maguindanao. “I want a physical count ng mga tao (of people). One by one,” Mangudadatu said. “Hindi naman ito (This is not about) vengeance,” he told MindaNews late Saturday afternoon in »Read More
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Aquino: Issues involving Arroyo need closure (Q&A)
By BOOMA CRUZ Courtesy of PROBE PROFILES ON election eve, media tore down the windows of Precinct 175-A of Sitio Alto, Barangay Central Azucarera de Tarlac Elementary School. The two adjacent giant square casements with horizontal rails blocked the perfect view of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machine stationed at the voting center. Leading presidential »Read More
