Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 21:31:11 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Friday appealed to voters to spurn candidates offering money in exchange for their votes, warning them that electing corrupt politicians would have adverse repercussions on the country’s future.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 21:29:58 +0000
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) on Friday announced it was withdrawing as an accredited watchdog for this year’s midterm polls after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) turned down its request to access key election data. By rejecting its petition to directly access, among other things, electronic copies of the certificates of canvass […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 21:22:12 +0000
The militant group Bayan Muna remained on top of party-list groups leading the race for 59 seats in the House of Representatives, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 11:16:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Seventy-six percent of registered voters said they are aware of the party-list system as the May 13 midterm elections approach, a recent survey of Pulse Asia showed.
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Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:25:51 +0000
An official of the Commission in Elections (Comelec) on Thursday denied allegations that the official ballots for the May 13 midterm polls had been preshaded with ultraviolet (UV) marks. “We tested, but the supposed UV marks were not read by the vote-counting machine. The VCM actually looks for black ink—the real ink, not invisible,” said […]
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Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:22:32 +0000
Don’t write off Otso Diretso just yet. Despite their dismal showing in recent surveys, candidates from the Otso Diretso coalition are banking on a “come-from-behind victory” buoyed by the “last-minute discernment of voters,” Sen. Francis Pangilinan, the group’s campaign manager, said on Thursday. “We will not stop campaigning, we will not stop convincing and wooing […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:19:56 +0000
LAOAG CITY — Outgoing Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas on Thursday dropped his bid for governor, leaving Matthew Manotoc, a son of Gov. Imee Marcos, unopposed in the race and ensuring that the Marcos family will stay at the provincial capitol after the May 13 elections. Fariñas, who is serving his last term as representative […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:18:49 +0000
BAGUIO CITY — Abra’s highest-ranking officials on Thursday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to stop the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) from investigating local politicians and their supporters during the midterm elections, pointing out that it was led by the husband of congressional candidate Victoria Seares-Corpus. The national director of the CIDG […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 05:31:41 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) personnel on Tuesday took part in the local absentee voting for this year’s midterm elections.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:36:04 +0000
Texas officials announced Friday that they settled a lawsuit over a bungled search for ineligible voters that President Donald Trump stoked over Twitter but that resulted in the U.S. citizenship of thousands of people being wrongly called into question.
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