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.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES COTABATO City— Social Studies teacher Abunawas Solaiman clearly remembers the 2004 elections because, he said, it was the only time he felt safe serving as a member of the Board of Election Inspectors. He was then assigned at precinct 21-A in Barangay Katbo, Matanog in Maguindanao, serving alongside a policeman and a marine
BULUAN, Maguindanao—Only five ballots had been fed when the Precinct Count Optical Scan or PCOS machine at the Talitay Elementary School here encountered a software error. As the day wore on, the machine failed to read the ballots or ejected a ballot.
By LORIE ANN A. CASCARO with a report from CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY —The Regional Legislative Assembly (RLA) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is confident it can beat the deadline of six months given for the review of Republic Act 9054 (Expanded Organic Act for the ARMM) as it has so far “achieved two major things,” RLA Speaker Rasol Y. Mitmug Jr. said.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES The hearings of the Election Registration Board (ERB) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has been postponed again. Commission on Elections (Comelec) Resolution 9519 promulgated September 13 moved the ERB schedule to November. The postponement was made based on the recommendation of lawyer Teofisto Elnas Jr, Director IV of the Election and Barangay Affairs Department.
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – “On the same paragraph now, but it’s still a long paragraph,” Malaysian facilitator Tengku Dato’ Ab Ghafar Tengku Mohamed summed up to MindaNews Thursday the progress of the first three days of the August 7 to 11 peace negotiations here between the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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 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