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By CAMILLE ANNE DE ASIS and CIELO EUNICE FLORES
“Media did a better job, but some of the old problems remain,” said Dean Luis Teodoro, Deputy Director of Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.
By CIELO EUNICE FLORES
“In theory or by law, the Comelec is legally responsible for the problems encountered in the elections…” Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero, co-chair of the Joint Congressional committee on automated polls told a group of international observers.
By MARYA SALAMAT
“With the many serious problems in the whole election process, it is only through the efforts of the people – the sacrifices made by the public school teachers and the resilience of voters – that the election was made possible,” said the Peoples' International Observers' Mission.
By JENNY S. DE VENECIA
International observer intimidated by the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Abra
By CAMILLE ANNE DE ASIS
“Though the automation of the elections brought quite a few positive changes in the electoral system...Unfortunately, these improvements were not sufficient to break the established system of command votes, in which political leaders dictate people’s choices, and continues to thwart the true exercise of the right to suffrage,” said Salik Ibrahim of the Citizens’ Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms.
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