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.
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
By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Army soldiers swooped into the town of Maguing in Lanao del Sur and arrested 30 suspected flying registrants today, the last day of the two-week registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The crackdown came as the Commission on Elections reported they
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES COTABATO CITY— Voters in some Maguindanao towns could be disenfranchised because they were given only a few days to register, and not the full 10 days set aside by the Commission on Elections. Lawyer Noel A. Ben, chapter president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Cotabato City and adviser of
AMIEL MARK CAGAYAN, Reporter and Videographer ARTHA KIRA PAREDES, Writer DATU PIANG, Maguindanao—For weeks now, parishioners of the church in Datu Piang, Maguindanao have been praying for a peaceful conduct of the general voters’ registrations, now on its last day in the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The 300 or so Catholic families who
By BABYLYN KANO-OMAR VERA Files BONGAO, Tawi-tawi—Former Elections Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, now vice president of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), arrived here Sunday for a brief visit to check on PPCRV operations. Larrazabal visited six registration centers, and in some of these centers saw that among the PPCRV volunteers were persons with
By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews MARAWI CITY — Flying registrants are getting paid more and “instant registration centers “have cropped up in Marawi City and outlying towns in Lanao del Sur as the registration of new voters reached the final two days, an election watchdog said today. Sinab Ibrahim, head of the Citizens Care Lanao del
By LOVE ILUSTRE, DXSM JOLO, Sulu— Election officials noticed a decline in the number of residents going to registration centers, on the eighth day of the ongoing voters’ registration in some towns in this province. Compared to the first week of registration where centers were crammed and jammed, there were fewer registrants in the towns