Comelec proclaims 28 Party-list »
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed on Monday the top 28 winning party-list groups in the last May 2010 Elections.
The party-list group seats granted to them are the following:
1. Coalition of Association of Senior Citizens in the Philippines – 1,292,182 votes (2 seats)
2. Akbayan Citizen’s Action Party – 1,058,691 votes (2 seats)
3. Gabriela Women’s Party [...]
Comelec urge celebrities to help in voter ed campaign »
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) urged celebrities as well as media personalities to join the poll body’s campaign in helping to educate voters by participating in different video advertisements.
“We’re appealing to media personalities and celebrities to help common elections in its voter education campaign. If you don’t know but you want to help out, you [...]
Clean Schools, Clean Election program of DepEd »
The Department of Education on Friday launched its new program called “Clean Schools, Clean Election” ensuring that the teachers and schools remained politics-free. The said campaign will effect on the election period and will end until outcome of the May 10 elections determined.
The program approved by Education Secretary Jesli Lapus will minimize and prevent any [...]
Comelec: “Follow the campaign rules!” »
The Commission on Elections on Monday appealed to national and local candidates running for public office to follow the campaign rules.
“Follow the rules. You’ll be the leaders of the country so you have to follow the rules,” Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal.
The Commisioner adviced the candidates on posting banners, streamers and posters only in the authorized [...]
Comelec names provinces with weak signals »
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that around 6 major provinces in the Philippines were found to have low connectivity to transmit election returns for the 201o electronic elections.
Spokesman for Smartmatic Gene Gregorio named the areas with weak signals as Abra, Benguet, Samar, Leyte, Zamboanga, and Tawi-tawi.
Abra has a total of 147,615 voters; Benguet with [...]
UV marks to use for security purposes only »
The Commission on Elections on Friday denied the critics accusations that the Ultraviolet (UV) ink security feature of the election ballots may be use to cover up the results of the elections.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesperson James Jimenez said that the critics claim the UV ink is going to be used to mark ovals invisibly.
The [...]
Shippers of signal jammers to face election raps »
People behind the shipment of signal jammers that will use to sabotage the 2010 electronic election may face poll offense.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Jose Melo said that under the law, shipping any form of device that may disrupt the election can already be considered as an election offense.
Melo assured the public that the attempt [...]
Printing of ballots rescheduled »
The Commission on Elections on Monday confirmed that the printing of official ballots for the 2010 elections has been rescheduled.
The National Printing Office (NPO) would have started the printing of 50,723,734 ballots on January 25, but it was moved to January 30. They set a final printing date supposedly on January 31.
“The ballots were supposed [...]
Comelec junks petition to disqualify PGMA »
The second division of Commission on Elections on Thursday dismissed the disqualification case filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who will run as a Congresswoman in the second district of Pampanga this coming 2010 polls.
Liberal Party senatorial candidate Risa Hontiveros, who filed the petition against Mrs. Arroyo, already expected the Comelec’s decision in favor of the [...]
Malacañang confident about poll automation »
Malacañang Deputy Presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar said last Tuesday the Palace will give all support to the Comelec in order to push through with the automation polls as a priority project of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her remaining days as public official.
“As we have repeatedly said in the past, we will continue to stand behind [...]
Comelec official speaks about failure of elections issue »
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo spoke about the issues picturing a failure of electionwith the use of the automated machines in the2010 polls.
Melo said the apprehensions made by people are adding more dilemma instead of reassuring the voters that there will be no power interruption problem that will occur on the election [...]
Poll body discovers 43,000 multiple registrants »
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said that the poll body has discovered at least 43,000 multiple registrants in areas of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Region IV-A or Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon province) from the voter’s list.
“To think that the 43,000 flying voters came only from four regions, [...]