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
(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