Many of the public schoolteachers who were deputized for election duty last May 13 have not received their honoraria from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), according to a teachers’ group.
Senatorial candidate Richard Gordon and his party, the Bagumbayan-Volunteers for a New Philippines has asked the Supreme Court to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from removing the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines that were used in the May 13 elections from the polling precincts where they were stationed for the recent poll exercise.
Instead of telling the opposition to concede defeat in the senatorial election, the administration should ask the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to investigate the supposed “60-30-10” pattern in the returns so the public will know what really happened, the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) said on Friday.
Outgoing Antipolo Mayor Nilo Leyble has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to nullify the proclamation of Rizal Gov. Casimiro Ynares III who was declared the city’s mayor-elect based on the results of the May 13 polls.
“Toby” Tañada Jr. has contested his defeat as the representative of Quezon’s fourth district, asking the Commission on Elections to credit to him the votes cast for a disqualified candidate that shared his surname.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to proclaim the winning party-list groups Thursday after Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. announced they would issue a resolution on the proclamation of winners Friday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is poised to proclaim the results in the party-list balloting.
A Hong Kong Chinese businessman has bagged multimillion-peso projects involving the production and delivery of the country’s new generation banknotes.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may push for Internet voting next time due to the low voter turnout in the overseas absentee voting (OAV) in the last elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday vowed to prosecute persons found to have deliberately destroyed the compact flash (CF) cards of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used during the recently concluded midterm elections.
No need to mess up the poll calendar. That was President Benigno Aquino’s reaction on Tuesday to a suggestion from Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. that the barangay (village) elections set by law for October this year be postponed to either 2014 or to 2015.
Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. brushed aside criticisms that the proclamations of winning senatorial candidates last week were premature, saying the poll body acted validly in using grouped canvass reports to project the victorious candidates.
A Malacañang official on Sunday backed the proclamation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of winning senatorial candidates ahead of the full count of votes, but said anybody could hale the agency to court.
