THE National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has expressed grave concern over the increasing harassment of journalists who are covering the election campaign and asked the candidates to call for calm among their supporters. NUJP chair Ryan D. Rosauro said the NUJP, in its monitoring of the plight of journalists in the campaign trail,
HASH codes will determine the authenticity of the software used in the vote-counting machines. There is only one hash code used for all VCMs in the country: A1 47 91 C4 2F DA 95 7C 47 DB E3 EA 52 FB 2A A3 9D BF DA AF F6 83 68 7A 80 B6 9F 61 A1 13
A DECEMBER 2015 survey by the Social Weather Stations showed that three in five registered voters think voting in malls would be easier for senior citizens and PWDs, given the current state of voting centers in the country. A total of 1,200 registered voters were interviewed on whether or not they agree that voting centers be
Photos by LUIS LIWANAG NECK and neck with administration bet Leni Robredo in the vice presidential race, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. capped his campaign with a miting de avance in Mandaluyong on May 5. His running mate, Miriam Defensor Santiago, was absent in the event and held a separate sortie in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
By DANIEL ABUNALES FOURTEEN days before the May 9 polls, former presidential bet frontrunner Jejomar Binay suffered his biggest setback. The United Nationalist Alliance’s (UNA) standard-bearer plunged to fourth place in the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll survey. He posted a rating of 14 percent – six points lower than his previous results.
BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS AS the official who supervised the first automated national elections in 2010, former Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal wants the elections on Monday to succeed. That means for it to be accepted by the Filipino people as honest and credible. But there are a number of things that the current Comelec
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FIVE days before Election Day, former Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, who supervised the first automated elections in 2010 and is now consultant of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, said there are a still lot of loose ends that need to be tied to make Monday’s election orderly. He is very concerned with
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IF you have to resort to lies in a conflict, it only indicates that you are not on the side of truth. It’s becoming obvious that the expose of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV of Davao City Mayor Duterte’s bank transactions that can go up to as much as P2.4 billion has
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS MARCH 14, 2016 – Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte and his running mate Alan Peter Cayetano signed a manifesto waiving their rights under the Bank Secrecy law. In the manifesto, printed on a large piece of cardboard, they pledged “to open all our bank accounts in local and foreign currencies both here
WITH social media’s wide array of possibilities, netizens have seized the opportunity to make fun of presidential and other candidates by creating impersonation accounts using the candidate's image, paired with a convincing handle.
