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Category: Vote 2013

  • Categories Top Stories Vote 2013

    Back to basics for the barangay elections

    Oct 27, 2013 4:20 PM

    By CHERRY JOY VENILES UNLIKE the May 2013 automated polls, the barangay election on Monday is a return to basics: manual voting where pens, blank ballots and a good old blackboard/whiteboard are the order of the day. After reading through a certified list of candidates stapled inside ballot secrecy folders, voters will fill up their ballots […]

    2013 Barangay Elections

  • Categories ARMM Watch News Vote 2013

    Barangay polls turn partisan, contrary to Election Code

    Oct 27, 2013 3:02 PM

    By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
    Photo and Video by AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN

    COTABATO CITY— The candidates for barangay polls arrived at the same time and wore political colors and party uniforms, revealing the partisan nature of village elections.

    ARMM, C-CARE, Omnibus Election Code

  • Categories ARMM Watch Top Stories Vote 2013

    Citizen volunteers to serve as election tellers

    Oct 27, 2013 10:04 AM

    By DANIEL ABUNALES ZAMBOANGA CITY – In tomorrow’s barangay elections, there will be 20 polling places across the country where public school teachers will work alongside private individuals as election tellers. Under an arrangement with the Commission on Elections, the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) will be fielding citizen volunteers in 20 pre-selected polling […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, LENTE, Project Teacher

  • Categories Top Stories Vote 2013

    Only 10 PWDs to vote in special polling places

    Oct 26, 2013 5:09 PM

    By DARLENE CAY OVER 54 million Filipinos will be electing barangay officials on Monday, but in special polling precincts for persons with disabilities, only 10 will be able to cast their votes. The Commission on Elections has assigned four SM malls nationwide as pilot accessible polling places for PWDs and senior citizens. Calling this exercise […]

    comelec, election, Padaca, PWD, SM

  • Categories ARMM Watch News Vote 2013

    One-third of Basilan villages areas of concern

    Oct 26, 2013 4:44 PM

    By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ POLL watchdog Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms Inc (C-CARE) says one in every three barangays in Basilan are potential areas of concern in Monday’s elections and recommends an increase in the number of security personnel in those villages. C-CARE says unstable peace and order situations have been observed in 92 […]

    ARMM, Barangay, basilan, elections, Rido

  • Categories ARMM Watch Top Stories Vote 2013

    ARMM DILG boosts poll monitoring teams

    Oct 25, 2013 11:22 PM

    By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES

    COTABATO CITY— The Department of Interior and Local Government in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is collaborating with election watchdogs and all local peace and order councils in the region to monitor the barangay elections on Monday.

    2013 baranagy elections, ARMM, dilg

  • Categories News Photos Vote 2013

    PNP, AFP assured of payment for poll duties

    Oct 25, 2013 11:10 PM

    By VINCE NONATO THE Commission on Elections has finally signed the P100 million check to fund the honoraria and other expenses of police and army deputies tasked to maintain peace and order and carry out other election-related duties, Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. announced Friday. The funds, P60 million of which will go to the Philippine […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, AFP, comelec, PNP

  • Categories News Vote 2013

    Security measures in place for village polls in E. Visayas

    Oct 25, 2013 2:07 PM

    By VICENTE ALEJANDRO TACLOBAN CITY – Thousands of policemen have been deployed to different parts of Eastern Visayas to help secure the barangay elections on Monday. This week alone, some 3,980 policemen were sent to man the Police Assistance Desks (PADs) in clustered voting centers throughout the region. Earlier, more than 900 cops were deployed to […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, Eastern Visayas

  • Categories News Vote 2013

    Beware of vote-buying, but …

    Oct 25, 2013 1:01 PM

    A word of advice from Commission on Elections spokesman James Jimenez: guard against vote-buying but exercise prudence when documenting such acts. The public was helpful in documenting vote-buying and other violations in the May elections and in Monday’s barangay polls, citizens are again expected to be vigilant. But the poll official warns: take it easy with […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, vote-buying

  • Categories ARMM Watch News Vote 2013

    Police, military to serve as election tellers in ARMM

    Oct 25, 2013 12:45 AM

    By VINCE NONATO AS in previous elections, police and military personnel will serve as election tellers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in Monday’s barangay polls, in place of teachers who have refused to render service. Teachers across the country normally serve as election tellers but fearing for their safety, many in the […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, ARMM Watch

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