By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
The Aquino government appears bent to push back to zero election watchdog’s efforts at enhancing the poll body’s IT capabilities.
Reforms on automated polls seen as doomed with IT commissioner non-reappointment
Tags: Philippine elections
Genuino party-list received gov’t funds, documents show
News Release June 16, 2010 The party-list group Batang Iwas Droga (BIDA), founded by former Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) chief Efraim Genuino and which fielded Genuino’s daughter Sheryl Genuino-See as its first nominee during the May elections, received funds from the government gaming agency, documents show. This, the anti-fraud group Kontra Daya said,…
Own Up To Dismal Turnout, Glitches in AES, COMELEC Told
“With only a few days left for the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV), all signs say that less than 50% of registered voters in Hong Kong will be able to vote. Thousands of OFWs have again been disenfranchised in this election no matter how many times the COMELEC tries to deny it and cover up its…
Prepare To Protest vs Fraud, Comelec’s Election Sabotage– Gabriela
“AES stands for Automated Elections Sabotage,” declared Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Luzviminda Ilagan, referring to the technical foul-ups during COMELEC tests of the PCOS machines a mere four days before elections. “It is beyond incompetence. It cannot even be described as simple failure of technology. After COMELEC’s super-confident proclamation that it was all systems go…
Benjie Oliveros | Dirty Politics
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com The country has been holding elections for more than half a century and yet nothing seems to have substantially changed. Local elections are still being fought with guns, goons, and gold while national elections are nothing more than popularity contests. Proof of this is the fact that the top rankings…
Comelec’s Poll Automation will Make Fraud More Dangerous
OMR creates the danger of placing the fate of the elections in the hands of a profit-oriented multinational company – the winning bidder – and on the Comelec which remains ill-prepared to run an election technology let alone in checking fraud. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat When at…
‘86 Con-Com Delegate Says Party-List System Hasn’t Served its Avowed Purpose
Has the Philippine party-list system served its avowed purpose of providing representation for the country’s “marginalized and under-represented” sectors? Dr. Wilfrido Villacorta, a co-sponsor of the 1987 Constitution’s party-list provision, together with Christian Monsod, does not think so. His views are expressed in this interview with Bulatlat. BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat Has the Philippine…
Abra Remains as ‘Killing Fields,’ 8 Killed in Five Days
The telling tale is reflected in the gunning down of, Bucay town councilor Nito Sales in broad daylight at around 10 a.m. Friday. The victim, a former policeman, is yet the latest in the statistics of the ‘Killing Fields’ after gunmen killed a female clerk of court also in Bucay on Monday also in broad…
‘Among Ed’ Panlilio: A Victory with Double Effect
The canvassing of election returns has not yet been completed. Tension still rises from every corner in the country. But in Pampanga, they are experiencing a first, the election of a priest Fr. Ed Panlilio as governor and his supporters, as well as those who shun traditional politics are overjoyed. BY MAC BRYAN N. BAUTISTA…
Election-time Adventures
I had volunteered twice before as poll watcher for the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting during the 2001 and 2004 polls. But nothing prepared me for the grueling tasks I had to do as poll watcher for Kabataan Party-list. And yet, more than a week after the polls, my task as a citizen is…
Spectacle of a Problematic Election
The elections are a period when these conflicting forces play out an act in a long-running drama. For those who control power, each election is crucial. They cannot afford to lose. They can, in another sense, afford to win through “guns, goons, gold and Garci.” BY PROF. GILL H. BOERINGER* Contributed to Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH…