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To prevent a repeat of machine malfunctions during previous elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is hoping to gain the support of the executive and legislative branches in purchasing a new election system.
Did the number of voters in your barangay balloon like in this one? Were there so many new registrants at your Comelec district office?
Comelec: Number of voters for barangay, SK elections drop
While Commission on Elections Chairman George Erwin Garcia is open to the proposal to postpone the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in Negros Oriental, he disclosed yesterday that it has to be studied carefully.
Nuisance candidates and their accomplices those who pushed them to file their candidacy should be meted a prison term of up to six years, fined no less than P500,000 and disqualified from holding public office, Commission on Elections Chairman George Erwin Garcia said yesterday.