By JAKE SORIANO LAST week’s launch of an online voters’ registration platform is a significant step towards assisting persons with disabilities (PWD) in the capital and will go a long way if coverage would be nationwide. “We hope that online registration will cover persons with disabilities nationwide, but we understand that pilot testing is important before
By JANE DASAL NEARLY 450 persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens participated in a special registration in Manila on Sunday, but voters said the number could have been higher had information been properly disseminated. Held at the Central Section of Rizal Park, the Commission on Elections set up the satellite registration for new and old
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be holding a satellite registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens of Manila on Sunday, June 1. To be held at the Central Section of Rizal Park, the registration will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Voters are to bring at least one valid ID. For more information,
By DARLENE CAY COMMISSION on Elections Chairman SixtoBrillantes Jr. on Wednesday reminded public school teachers who refused to serve as members of the Board of Election Tellers (BETs) of their civic duty. “Ayaw naman nating ipilit (We do not want to impose). It’s not really in a sense, compulsory. But we’re always appealing to the civic-mindedness
By VERA Files SENIOR citizens and persons with disabilities became the darlings of the press when they cast their ballots for the first time in SM malls on Monday. In Batangas, the media fussed over Reymundo Chica and his wife Melanie, both with visual impairment, as they entered SM Lipa, one of the four pilot areas
By DARLENE CAY (UPDATED) THE Commission on Elections decided on Monday to suspend the proclamation of winners in areas where petitions have been filed against candidates who are considered nuisance, are unregistered voters or have been convicted. Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said the move was needed because the poll body lacks time to resolve all
By DARLENE CAY OVER 54 million Filipinos will be electing barangay officials on Monday, but in special polling precincts for persons with disabilities, only 10 will be able to cast their votes. The Commission on Elections has assigned four SM malls nationwide as pilot accessible polling places for PWDs and senior citizens. Calling this exercise
By VINCE NONATO THE Commission on Elections has finally signed the P100 million check to fund the honoraria and other expenses of police and army deputies tasked to maintain peace and order and carry out other election-related duties, Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. announced Friday. The funds, P60 million of which will go to the Philippine
IT’S all systems go for the barangay polls. Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr on Friday announced that the electoral body is ready to conduct successful elections, and that all materials for October 28 have been deployed. “We’ve completed the preparations…we should be winding up on the final deployment,” he said. Deployment of materials
By DARLENE CAY THE Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas on Wednesday filed a motion for reconsideration after a local court denied its petition to declare as illegal the Commission on Elections’ directive requiring barangays to help fund the October 28 polls. The group, in its petition before the Manila Regional Trial Court, says the