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VOLUNTEER-lawyers of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) on Sunday reported two incidents of vote-buying in Isabela, making them the first two reports that had reached Lente’s complaint desk. In Barangay Buculud in the capital city of Ilagan, a roving Lente volunteer reported that barangay kagawads identified as supporters of Isabela Governor Bodgie Dy

By LENTE The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to give the 29th copy of the election returns to the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente), which it recently accredited as a national citizens’ arm handling the legal aspects of the presidential elections. The decision was reached in an en banc session Saturday, as Comelec

EIGHTY-SIX percent of registered voters will vote according to social interest rather than self-interest, according to the April pre-election poll of the Social Weather Stations. Majority will also decide for themselves rather than be told whom to vote for, believe popular  support rather than political machinery wins the election for a candidate, and will follow

By LORENA NAVALLASCA PROCESS Foundation Panay ONE person was killed as six supporters of mayoral candidate Gil Bandoja were ambushed reportedly by members of the local Philippine National Police in Tibiao town in  Antique at  3 a.m Sunday. One survivor said their cars were blocked by PNP patrol cars, forcing them to slow down before

By VIOLETA M. GLORIA Mindanews ILIGAN CITY.—Local Liberal Party candidates led by reelectionist congressman Vicente Belmonte of the lone district of Iligan and mayor Lawrence Cruz paraded Saturday afternoon with supporters from hinterland and coastal communities to ‘show force.’ They assembled from four centerpoints of the city and converged along Quezon avenue near Saint Michael

By MINDANEWS MALAYBALAY CITY.–A village chief in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon was killed and a barangay driver was seriously injured in a vehicular accident while transporting a precinct count optical scan machine (PCOS) to their village, Manolo Fortich’s Radyo Natin reported on May 6. Maxi Cadavez, RN reporter told MindaNews via telephone that Felimon Guinontao, village

By MURIN VELASCO KAISAHAN Tungo sa Kaunlaran ng Kanayunan at Repormang Pansakahan Inc. THE three-cornered fight in Leyte’s local polls this May 10 is mainly a battle of political clans and landlords that include celebrity TV host Lucy Torres-Gomez. Torres-Gomez, who belongs to a landed family, is the last-minute substitute for her disqualified husband Richard

By BUENA BERNAL A POLL group filed yesterday before the Supreme Court a petition to restore the digital signing of electronic election returns (ERs) for the Monday polls. Without the signatures, the entire electoral exercise can be rendered illegal. In a 10-page petition, COMPACT for Peaceful and Democratic Elections urged the Commission on Elections to

THE Commission on Elections has yet to deliver precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to about 80 percent of polling places in the province of Bukidnon with barely two days to go before Monday’s polls. The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has monitored the delivery of only 115 PCOS machines for 110 clustered

By Movement for Principled Politics in Pampanga and Citizen Journalists-Pampanga PAMPANGA. —Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio said yesterday he will appeal to the Supreme Court the ruling of the Commission on Elections declaring his rival Lilia Pineda as the winner in the 2007 gubernatorial elections here. “This is not a matter of saving a personality but

By Movement for Principled Politics in Pampanga and Citizen Journalists-Pampanga SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga. —Tension runs high at the University of the Philippines-San Fernando Extension in the Clark Free Port (UP Clark) because of the school director’s continuous refusal to allow the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to use their covered court as a polling precinct this

THE Commission on Elections, meeting en banc, has junked the motion for reconsideration filed by Congressman Vicente “Bingbong” Crisologo seeking the disqualification of Vivienne Tan as an independent congressional candidate in Quezon City’s first district. All seven commissioners concurred that “Tan possesses all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications as candidate for Member of