(UPDATED) NO candidates in the upcoming barangay elections will be allowed to take part in relief operations in earthquake-ravaged Bohol, Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr warned on Wednesday. “The Commission on Elections is making sure that the distribution of relief will not be used for political purposes,” he said in a press briefing, adding that the
By DARLENE CAY THE Commission on Elections on Wednesday said it has packed and shipped 94.65 percent of the materials needed for the October 28 barangay polls. Comelec Commissioner Al Parreño, who heads the Committee on Deployment, said the distribution of paraphernalia is being implemented according to the plan. “Wala naman kaming nakikitang problema sa
By DARLENE CAY THE Commission on Elections has so far pooled a mere P102 million from barangays to augment funds for the October 28 elections, or only about a quarter of the amount the body poll would have collected if all the 42,028 barangays nationwide remitted their share. Only 17 percent or 6,981 villages turned
By DARLENE CAY THE Commission on Elections, sitting en banc on Tuesday, scheduled the special barangay elections for Bohol and Zamboanga on November 25. The poll body earlier announced the suspension of barangay polls in Bohol, which was devastated by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake exactly a week ago. Comelec also suspended elections in Zamboanga City on October
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
