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A total of 400 gun ban violators have been arrested in Central Luzon since the Commission on Elections imposed the ban from Jan. 9 to June 5.

Renting out 97,000 new vote-counting machines for the 2025 mid-term elections would cost the Commission on Elections (Comelec) an estimated P6.7 billion, according to Sen. Imee Marcos, who chairs her chambers committee on electoral reforms and peoples participation.

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner George Garcia on Tuesday expressed his approval for a passage of a law that would regulate social media, targeted to combat the proliferation of internet trolls, during election season.

A Commission on Appointments panel on Monday deferred again the hearing on the appointments of the officials of the Commission on Audit, Commission on Civil Service, and Commission on Elections.

“We have almost 1,000 cases being investigated and we have several subpoenas issued, requiring the respondents to explain,” Garcia said. 

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is investigating almost a thousand alleged vote-buying cases in relation to the conduct of the May 2022 national and local elections, poll Commissioner George Garcia said on Monday.

The Commission on Elections is shutting down the automated election system servers and their network infrastructure today.

The Commission on Elections has called on the incoming Congress to make the necessary amendments to Republic Act 7941, the Party-List System Act, after the poll body was challenged in computing the allocation of seats to winning party-list groups.

Re-computation looms over partylist seats

The anti-corruption group Citizens Crime Watch has sued former Commission on Elections commissioner Rowena Guanzon for “unlawfully divulging confidential information” in the disqualification case against then presidential aspirant and now president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr.