Back to square one for party-list system
By MIKHA FLORES THE latest Supreme Court ruling on the party-list system has stirred up a maelstrom of controversy and revived debates over its real aim barely a month before the May 13 mid-term elections.
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Comelec, Church in Eastern Visayas call for peaceful polls
By VICENTE ALEJANDRO TACLOBAN CITY – With more than a week left before the March 30 start of the campaign period for local candidates, the Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas and the Archdiocese of Palo have called for a clean, honest and peaceful election.
Cleansing of ARMM voters’ list: 61,000 double/multiple registrants found as of Sept. 11
By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews DAVAO CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has found through its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) at least 61,416 double/multiple registrants in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao as of September 11.
Comelec resets ARMM ERB hearings again
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.
Comelec fails to provide crucial PWD forms
COTABATO CITY— The Commission on Elections allowed persons with disabilities (PWDs) to register during the voters’ registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), but failed to provide them with supplemental forms that would have determined the kind of assistance they would need come election day next year. For the entire 10 days of
Harassment, delays mar relisting of ARMM voters
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,
Few PWDs registering in Ilocos a ‘good sign,’ says COMELEC
By LEILANIE ADRIANO LAOAG CITY— The Commission on Elections sees the low turnout in last month’s special voters registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Ilocos region as a “good sign.”
PWDs special registration turnout: high in Pasig, low in Pateros
Text by LLOYD REYES and SHIELA MAY ABALLA Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV IT was a study in contrast—the waiting area at the Pasig City Sports Center was filled with persons with disabilities (PWDs) waiting for their turn to file their voter’s registration forms, while in Pateros, only a handful of PWDs showed up, leaving most seats unoccupied.
PH urged to stop political appointments in Comelec
By LUZ RIMBAN
A NEW study by the United Nations has urged the Philippines to end the practice of political appointments at the Commission on Elections and professionalize the electoral body as a step toward addressing the problems of fraud and violence during elections.
Comelec junks manual count, says no to another ‘Garci’
By BUENA C. BERNAL THE Commission on Elections today rejected the proposed parallel manual count, saying this will lead to “old modes of cheating,” particularly the “resurrection of sleeping Garcis.” “A manual count — in essence, a regressive step belatedly being shoe-horned into the final preparations for the automated elections — will be extremely vulnerable