Archive - Vote 2013

By KEITH BACONGCO, MindaNews COTABATO CITY – The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has assailed the presence of police and military personnel inside registration centers during the 10-day re-registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) last month.

By KEITH BACONGCO, MindaNews
COTABATO CITY – The registration of minors, flying registrants and multiple registrations have remained rampant in the 10-day registration of voters last month in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), according to a task force tasked to assess the registration.

by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi—Aside from the practice of underage voting and hakot or transporting voters to registration centers, election watchers also saw a migration of voters in the recently concluded Commission on Elections (Comelec) listing in the province.

by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi— Unofficial results of the 10-day registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have shown a decrease in the number of of voters in the province.

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY – The governors of the five provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  have taken their oath as new members of President Aquino’s Liberal Party (LP). Basilan’s Jum Akbar, Lanao del Sur’ Mamintal Adiong Jr.; Maguindanao’s Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, Sulu’s Sakur Tan and Tawi-tawi’s Sadikul Sahali 

by BABYLYN KANO-OMAR BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi— The local Commission on Elections asked for military augmentation while the general voters registration was ongoing in the province.

By RICHARD FALCATAN LAMITAN CITY— Despite minor drawbacks, the recently concluded voters’ registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao was satisfactory, the Commission on Election (Comelec) said.

DAVAO CITY -- A total of 1.56 million persons trooped to voters’ registration centers in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) from July 9 to 18, a figure that is just 200,000 lower than before the Commission on Elections annulled the heavily padded voters’ list in June.

By NEF LUCZON, MindaNews CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – As Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadhan, an official in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao expressed hopes it will “lighten the path of the registered voters.” The impoverished autonomous Muslim region ended last Wednesday the 10-day re-registration of voters. Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis

AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN, Reporter and Videographer ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Writer UPI, Maguindanao—At the first hour of the first day of the general voters’ registration in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao  (ARMM), the indigenous Teduray of South Upi embarked on a journey to become voters. They came down from their homes up in the mountains,

By LOVE ILUSTRE, DXSM JOLO, Sulu—Except for minor “mishaps,” the 10-day voters registration in Sulu province was “generally peaceful and orderly.” This is how the Provincial Police Office spokesman Chief Inspector Kris Conrad Gutierrez described the conduct of the registration in centers designated by the Commission on Election (Comelec) in Sulu. The general voters’ registration

By MindaNews and VERA Files MARAWI CITY – At the close of the 10-day general registration of voters for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a total of 426,640 have registered in Lanao del Sur, or an 81-percent turnout, according to the Commission on Elections’ report consolidated from 309 registering machines in the province’s 39 municipalities and