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THE Supreme Court junked the petition filed by a coalition of corporate entities seeking to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to issue implementing rules and regulations (IRR) and conduct public consultations, particularly on the selection of automated election system (AES) to be used during national and local elections. In a…
Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia (Screengrab from Laging Handa briefing) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is open to the possibility of the country adopting a hybrid election system. Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia said Thursday he sees nothing wrong with the next national elections being held partly manual and partly automated. "My personal position on that, ever since I was a practitioner (of election law), is that I support hybrid elections. I even participated in the past Senate committee hearings on that matter," he said in a Laging Handa briefing. G...
(Photo courtesy of Kontra Daya Facebook) MANILA - Election watchdog Kontra Daya is made up of active urban operators and infiltrators of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), a former cadre of the communist terrorist groups said on Monday. In a statement, Jeffrey "Ka Eric" Celiz claimed that the "Kontra Daya group is known among former rebels, cadres, and organizers of the CPP-NPA-NDF" as "nothing but a special project of the communist terrorists' urban operators and infiltrators". Celiz identifie...
The refurbishment of the vote counting machines (VCMs) that will be used in the May 2022 polls is almost done. Comelec/MB On Thursday, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Spokesperson James Jimenez reported that they've alresdy refurbished 99.6 percent of the VCMs. "That's 96,981 but we do have a
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is now selling its over 80,000 units of old Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS), which were last used in the 2013 elections. In a notice, the Comelec Disposal Committee (CDC) it would auction off the 81,755 PCOS units for over P187 million or P2,293.75 per…