“This year’s increase in overseas voting – a whopping 285-percent increase — “is testament to how Filipinos, wherever they are in the world, thirst for genuine change.”
Month: May 2016
VCM troubles top poll complaints
“Qualitatively, there has been no change from last two automated elections — the problems were still led by machine troubles, and most other reported problems stemmed from it.”
Search of Novotel yields 2 foreigner Smartmatic technicians
Early this morning, at around 9:30 a.m., the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting received a call from a hotel staff, informing them that VCMs were brought there.
Some VCMs do not record votes for Makabayan Senatorial bet Neri Colmenares
“These reports put to question the accuracy of the votes supposedly counted by the VCMs”
‘VCMs configured to count wrong’
The voter can verify through his or her receipt, but even if he or she sees and reports an error, this erroneous vote has been included in the precinct count.
On Mother’s Day, mothers join calls to Save Fabella
“This is the only hospital that caters to poor mothers, not only those who live here in Manila but also nearby provinces, and still the government will close it down.”
Electoral Politics and the Contemporary Crisis of Neoliberalism
By SARAH RAYMUNDO Blood Rush How come some people still get away with mouthing the big lie about elections being the great equalizer? It is mainly because pundits refuse to see electoral politics in its proper context: the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism. Instead of anaylzing political figures, events, dispositions, track record, and platforms within two…
#BeyondElections| Where will next administration get budget for its promised reforms?
“The Department of Budget Management has said that as much as 90 percent of the country’s budget this year has already been released.”
Neri Colmenares, the ‘warrior’ the country needs
“Any undertaking inside the congress will never succeed, if you cannot link it to the Filipino masses outside.”
Communists not for Duterte or any other candidate
Its consistent pronouncements regarding its main methods of achieving deep social changes excluded participating in what it calls as “reactionary elections.”
Prexy bets still mum on Mary Jane
“Even if the new administration will not pay attention to Mary Jane, we are no longer the old Veloso family who stayed mum on her issue. We have Migrante and Colmenares now.”