Election officials will end up in jail if they fail to either automate or prepare for the manual balloting next year, Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile warned on Friday.
(UPDATE 2) The Senate will not suspend its operations even after one of its employees was confirmed to be infected with the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, Senate President Juan Pence Enrile said on Friday.
(UPDATE) The country’s first ever automated elections in 2010 is back on track after the two companies who won the contract to make it happen patched up their differences, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo said.
Two of the country’s biggest news organizations joined forces on Friday for a “comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan coverage” of the 2010 national elections to help Filipinos here and abroad vote wisely.
The Aboitiz Group on Friday denied any personal or professional relationship between members of the Aboitiz clan and the head of the Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) and stressed that its participation in the poll automation project of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was purely a business transaction.
Just pray for her. That’s the advice of a close family friend to people who wish to visit the ailing former President Corazon Aquino but are not allowed to do so.
The two technology firms who won the bidding for the 2010 election automation contract have ironed out their differences and agreed to be "on board" the project, three sources privy to the negotiations said.
