By MIKHA FLORES FIRST it was the source code for the PCOS machines they were quarrelling about. Now former colleagues, Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. and Augusto “Gus” Lagman are squabbling about intelligence funds. Lagman, who served as Comelec commissioner for about a year, revealed on Wednesday that election officials receive intelligence funds
By MARK MADRONA FIVE days after the nation trooped to the polls, the Commission on Elections officially wrapped up its canvassing for the 2013 senatorial elections by proclaiming the last three winners in the race on Saturday. The proclamation of San Juan Rep. Joseph Victor Ejercito, re-electionist Gregorio Honasan, and former Las Pinas Rep. Cynthia Villar
By LALA ORDENES and IRENE ROSALES CEBU City—Unless they grow a pair of wings on election day, 1,770 public school teachers who are on poll duty here may not be able to cast their votes on May 13. Three teachers will man each of Cebu City’s 592 clustered precincts as members of the Board of
By VINCE NONATO, LEILANIE ADRIANO, REYNARD MAGTOTO and CLTV 36 Was it a P1.4 billion well spent? Airfreight 2100 (Air 21), one of the two freight and cargo forwarding firms awarded by the Commission on Elections a P1.4 billion contract to deploy poll machines on Monday, caused massive delays and confusion in polling precincts for
By VINCE NONATO TO this Baptist church in Quezon City, Paul Watser is what you may call a good Christian. He’s tall, he’s young, he reads the Bible, he votes. Watser is a character in a series of shorts depicting the story of an ordinary, church-going, apathetic college student. And for the first time last
LET this be a warning to voters. All may not turn out right on election day. Take the case of James Jimenez, the spokesman of the Commission on Elections, who will be unable to cast his vote on May 13. He checked his status in the Comelec’s precinct finder only to find that his name
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.
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.
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.
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.