FACT CHECK: Video of fistfight among supporters of rival bets FROM 2023
A video circulating online shows supporters of opposing candidates in a brawl supposedly ahead of the May 12 midterm elections. This is false.
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Cops replace 200 teachers as members of BEI in five Lanao Sur towns
By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews MARAWI City — Fearing for their lives, 200 teachers from five municipalities in Lanao del Sur are boycotting their poll duty on Monday, prompting the Commission on Elections to deploy policemen to replace them. Senior Insp. Barlowe Espiga said they are fielding 200 policemen to replace the teachers who will not
‘Let the Ramadhan spirit prevail in ARMM’
By NEF LUCZON, MindaNews CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – As Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadhan, an official in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao expressed hopes it will “lighten the path of the registered voters.” The impoverished autonomous Muslim region ended last Wednesday the 10-day re-registration of voters. Assemblywoman Samira Gutoc-Tomawis
Lanao Sur posts 81% turnout in ARMM registration, with help from flying registrants
By MindaNews and VERA Files MARAWI CITY – At the close of the 10-day general registration of voters for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a total of 426,640 have registered in Lanao del Sur, or an 81-percent turnout, according to the Commission on Elections’ report consolidated from 309 registering machines in the province’s 39 municipalities and
30 flying registrants nabbed in Lanao Sur
By FROILAN GALLARDO, MindaNews CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Army soldiers swooped into the town of Maguing in Lanao del Sur and arrested 30 suspected flying registrants today, the last day of the two-week registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The crackdown came as the Commission on Elections reported they
ARMM Watch: Lanao del Sur
FOLLOWING are links to articles VERA Files had written on the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Elections in the province of Lanao del Sur. VERA Files is reposting these stories in preparation for the scheduled general registration of voters in the provinces of ARMM on July 9 to July 18, 2012. Violence, vote-buying mar special polls in Lanao Sur • June 4,