Archive - Vote 2013

By MINDANEWS LAMITAN CITY, Basilan – At the registration centers in this city, one will not fail to notice young individuals grouping themselves outside or inside the designated registration rooms. It is positive to note that the younger generation here is now trying to actively exercise their right to vote in the upcoming elections—but here’s

By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR VERA Files BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—“Hakot” sytem or the practice of ferrying and transporting residents to voters’ registration centers is happening all over Tawi-tawi, the country’s southernmost province, according to coordinators of the Catholic Church’s election watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV). PPCRV volunteers report that registrants are being brought in by air,

Text by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES Photos and Video by AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao—Officials are pushing for a more efficient registration process in the village with one of the highest number of voters here by setting different schedules of each zone to allow them to complete voters’ registration by July 18. Tamontaka Barangay

MAGUINDANAO – The girl in black abaya waiting outside a voting registration center at the Datu Pendililang Piang Elementary School in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town on Wednesday afternoon looked 13 or 14 but claimed to be 19. “You’re in college,” we asked Baileng (not her real name). She shook her head. “High school?” She again shook her head. “Grade Six,” she replied, almost in a whisper.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews) – Seven rubber plantation workers were killed while 18 others were wounded in an early morning ambush today in the municipality of Sumisip in the island province of Basilan allegedly staged by the Abu Sayyaf after a local cooperative refused to pay the armed group’s extortion demand.

By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR, DXGD-AM BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—Registration centers of the Commission on Elections have been able to process only 50 voters’ registration forms per center on the second day of the general voters’ registration here. The figure is just one-fourth of the projected 200 forms per center per day, causing delays and tensions in the registration areas.

By LOVE ILUSTRE, DXSM JOLO, Sulu—The Commission on Election (Comelec) provincial supervisor here has warned residents against multiple registrations, or enlisting as voters in different areas. Atty. Vidzfar Julie issued the warning amid observations that the number of registrants has reached 300 in some registration centers, despite a limit of 200 applications per day per

By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews MARAWI CITY  – Fearing for their lives, the entire team of election officers assigned in the municipality of Butig in Lanao del Sur pulled out dawn Wednesday after unruly supporters of warring local politicians fired shots in the air and fought each other at the town market. The election officers, mostly

By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR VERA Files   BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—The general registration of voters went off to a peaceful start here, the Philippines’ southernmost province, although delays and power shortages slightly marred the event. Election paraphernalia arrived in the capital Bongao only on July 9, the first of the 10-day general voters’  registration in the Autonomous Region

LAMITAN CITY—The practice of underaged Muslims attempting to register as voters continues in the ongoing general registration of voters in Muslim Mindanao, but they won’t get away with it.

By MindaNews ZAMBOANGA CITY – The head of the country’s election body has witnessed firsthand a perennial problem bugging elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). On Monday, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. did not fail to notice that in the island municipality of Simunul in Tawi-Tawi people look so

By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews MARAWI CITY — A multi-agency task force started a crackdown on vehicles ferrying “fictitious registrants” on Tuesday after Army soldiers intercepted 13 such vehicles in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on the same day. Col. Dario Bucawit, chief of the 64th Infantry Battalion said 13 vans and jeeps filled with suspected

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao  –  While voters in other areas in Maguindanao are complaining about the slow pace of  the registration process, those in Barangay Dalumangcob are not. The pace of registration for Dalumangcob residents at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office on the second floor of the town hall — the

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews  SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao  –  There wasn’t a long queue at the social hall of the Kamasi Elementary School in Ampatuan town although around 20 residents from two clustered barangays lined up to receive their registration forms at the voters’ registration center (VRC) some 20 minutes before registration officially started at 8

By MindaNews ZAMBOANGA CITY  – Pockets of harassment and delays marred the opening of the general re-listing of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Monday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. Comelec spokesperson James Arthur B. Jimenez however said the overall registration in the region, which will run until July 18,

FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had  written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Elections in the province of Sulu.  VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012.  Sulu holds generally peaceful polls; fistfights replace gunfights • May 17, 2010 ZAMBOANGA

FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had  written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Elections in the province of Tawi-Tawi.  VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012.  Governor’s ally gains control of contested Turtle Islands • May 17, 2010

FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had  written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Elections in the province of Lanao del Sur.  VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012.   Violence, vote-buying mar special polls in Lanao Sur • June 4,

FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had  written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Elections in the province of Maguindanao.  VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012.  SET: Spurious ballots, COCs proved Pimentel was cheated • August 11, 2011 FAKE

FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had  written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)  Elections in the province of Basilan.  VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012.  Closely monitor May 28 special polls, group says  • May 21, 2010 WITH the

WHEN dentist Jeana Lacsamana Manalaysay voted in the 2010 elections, her husband and son had to lift her wheelchair up three steps to her voting precinct in Almanza Uno in Las Pinas.

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
THE special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) nationwide set for next month will be called off following the Commission on Elections’ decision to give priority to voter registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

By MIKHAIL FRANZ FLORES
FIRST, the detainees. Then, people with disabilities. Now, indigenous peoples. The Commission on Elections is getting indigenous peoples (IPs) who are qualified voters to register and vote in next year’s midterm elections.