MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will work double time to reach its target of registering some one million overseas absentee voters (OAV) for the 2013 midterm polls. Read the rest of this entry »
Comelec eyes 1 million absentee voters for 2013 elections
November 3, 2011
20M Filipinos may not be allowed to vote in 2013 elections – Jimenez
August 14, 2011
ABOUT 20 million people are at risk of being excluded by the Commission on Elections from the 2013 elections if House Bill 3469 becomes a law.
The bill introduced by Tarlac Rep. Susan A. Yap, Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez and Abante Mindanao Rep. Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. may be passed by 2013 as it is now on its 3rd reading from the House of Representatives. Read the rest of this entry »
Comelec to implement reforms through 5-year program
July 24, 2011
Manila, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said it will strive to modernize, reform and redeem the integrity of the agency through a five-year program. Read the rest of this entry »
Registration of voters to resume April 1-Oct. 31
February 25, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday asked those who are qualified as voters to sign up when the continuing registration of voters resumes from April 1 to Oct. 31. Read the rest of this entry »
Successful polls in Phl cited by world freedom group
January 14, 2011
WASHINGTON – A successful election in the Philippines in May was one of a few “bright spots” in the annual survey of political rights and civil liberties around the world, said Freedom House, a Washington-based non-government organization. Read the rest of this entry »
THE YEAR THAT WAS: Year of P-Noy and the great automation
January 1, 2011
MANILA, Philippines – The year 2010 was a rare one that saw the election of an unlikely president, Benigno Aquino III, who won a six-year term to high office in the country’s first automated polls. Read the rest of this entry »
Arroyo bill seeks to ease rules on absentee voting
December 26, 2010
MANILA, Philippines―Former president Macapagal-Arroyo has filed a bill seeking to amend the Overseas Absentee Voting Act to encourage more migrant Filipino workers to participate in the 2013 polls. Read the rest of this entry »
Yearender: Banner year for Comelec after first ever auto polls
December 21, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – 2010 was a banner year for the Commission on Elections (Comelec), primarily due to the success of the country’s first automated polls last May 10. Read the rest of this entry »
The party-list system and corruption
November 19, 2010
Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the fifth part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series. Read the rest of this entry »
Governance problems
November 18, 2010
ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: The Manila Times today publishes the fourth part of the serialization of Mr. Monsod’s assessment of the May 2010 automated polls. The assessment was delivered on November 9, 2010, at the Ateneo de Manila Rockwell campus in Rockwell, Makati City, as a lecture, under the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation Lecture Series. Read the rest of this entry »
