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,
By CONG B. CORRALES, VANESSA L. ALMEDA, WALTER I. BALANE and KARLOS MANLUPIG
VARIOUS groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) based in Mindanao have criticized the Commission on Elections’ decision to cancel the planned special voter registrations for this sector this month.
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).