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The Commission on Elections announced Wednesday that it will hold special elections in some barangays in three municipalities in Lanao del Sur after violence and missing ballots led to a declaration of failure of elections there.

The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) on Wednesday flagged several issues in the 2022 Philippine general elections, including the technical problems involving the vote counting machines (VCMs), cases of alleged vote-buying, and the delayed resolution of presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s disqualification cases. 

SNATCHED VCM/BALLOTS. Some of the items left at one of the polling precincts in Bayabao Central School in the municipality of Butig after unidentified men took away the vote counting machines and ballots intended for Barangay Ragayan on May 9 polls. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday (May 12, 2022) declared "failure of elections" in the municipalities of Tubaran, Binidayan, and Butig in the province of Lanao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Apipa Bagumbaran of PIA Lanao del ...

SNATCHED VCM/BALLOTS. Some of the items left at one of the polling precincts in Bayabao Central School in the municipality of Butig after unidentified men took away the vote counting machines and ballots intended for Barangay Ragayan on May 9 polls. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday (May 12, 2022) declared "failure of elections" in the municipalities of Tubaran, Binidayan, and Butig in the province of Lanao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Apipa Bagumbaran of PIA Lanao del ...

"A careful review of the Motions for Reconsideration reveals that they failed to raise new matters that would warrant the reversal of the Assailed Resolution," the decision reads, adding that the motions "merely contain rehash of the Petitioners assertions and arguments." 

Vote-buying raps vs construction worker dismissed

Separate disqualification cases have been filed before the Commission on Elections against Cavite Vice Gov. Ramon “Jolo” Revilla III and Rosario town Mayor Jose Voltaire Ricafrente Jr. for alleged vote buying.

Lente The Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to extend the voting hours as some polling areas "still have queues of voters" and some experience "vote counting machine malfunctions." “LENTE believes that the long lines still in various voti

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - Eight people, including a police officer, were arrested Sunday night following a tension that broke between security personnel of two mayoral candidates in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. In a report to Brig. General Matthew P. Baccay, regional director of Police Regional Office-Central Luzon on Monday, arrested were security personnel of incumbent Mayor Arvin Salonga and mayoral candidate Agripino Javier - Benedicto Figueroa, Rances John Lozada, Jerick Santos, Herbert...

Since there was no more room for cheating in the electoral process with the introduction of the Automated Election System (AES), politicians opted to exploit the human factor or the vulnerability of candidates through vote buying. Voters cast their votes at Legarda Elementary School in Sampal