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Groups assail red-tagging vs. journ prof, election watchdog
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In Metro Manila, malfunctioning vote machines, long queues mar voting day
Malfunctioning vote-counting machines, long queues, and delayed polls are among the common issues faced here in Metro Manila as Filipinos cast their votes.
In Southern Tagalog, poll watchdog notes 135 cases of anomalies
As of noon today, election watchdog Kontra Daya Southern Tagalog has monitored at least 135 cases of electoral anomalies within the region, mostly from Laguna province.
Their own worst enemies
The electoral watchdog Kontra Daya (literally, Against Cheating) has found that seven out of 10 groups running for party-list seats in the House of Representatives are in the hands of far from marginalized and far from voiceless sectors and interests.
Groups launch PH elections monitoring initiatives
Various groups have launched programs against election fraud and violence as the national elections here in the Philippines draw near.
2022 elections in a nutshell
Among the demands that Kontra Daya urged to the COMELEC is to revoke the contract of F2 Logistics Philippines to avoid any conflict of interest in the delivery, warehousing, and storage of election paraphernalia.
Groups question pro-Duterte blogger’s appointment to head migrant body
A Filipino migrant rights group is not surprised over the appointment of former presidential communications aide Mocha Uson to yet another government office, just four months after she lost in the party-list election.
Move on? Move forward instead for clean elections, watchdogs say
On top of coercive activities of the police and military forcing the people not to vote for the opposition and the progressives, on top of humongous campaign ads of administration bets, the automated election system itself can and may have been used to spew vote “results” in favor of the administration bets, particularly at the national level.
Netizens say fight is not over
While some said they got depressed and others wanting to migrate, there are others who believe that the fight is not yet over.
Machine errors worse in today’s polls than in 2016, Kontra Daya reveals
Voter counting machine errors worsened in today’s polls, bucking the lowering trend set in the 2013 and 2016 national and local elections, watchdog Kontra Daya revealed.
Comelec urged to probe police’s partisan activities
“Red baiting is a different level of negative campaigning. It poses risks to those who are red-tagged and might result in extrajudicial killings.”