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Enrile warns Comelec chief may not be confirmed

By Marvin Sy | September 2, 2015 - 10:00am

The confirmations of Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista and Comelec Commissioner Sheriff Abas were deferred...

Headlines

Last fight vs pork barrel, dynasties, PCOS fraud

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | August 25, 2014 - 12:00am

P-Noy is being judged by the worsened unemployment, poverty, hunger, food shortages and price spikes, and slow disaster rehab that his counter-reformation has wrought.

Opinion

Battling with ‘normalcy’

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | September 29, 2013 - 12:00am

While it is the Napoles pork barrel scam that has  caught the public imagination on just how corrupt the government is, it is the Smartmatic-PCOS elections that is the mother of all scams. It hits at the heart...

Opinion

Elections assessment

By Rev. Jessie Primacio - Pagbabago-Cebu | June 1, 2013 - 12:00am

The suspicious pattern emerging in the distribution of senatorial votes in the recently-concluded mid-terms elections should be a cause of concern.   The pattern does not only suggest compromised hardware...

Freeman Opinion

Partial proclamation of winning party-list groups expected today

By Sheila Crisostomo | May 24, 2013 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expected to make a partial proclamation of winning party-list groups today.

Headlines

Piñol intends to bring electoral protest to SC

June 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Former North Cotabato vice governor Emmanuel Piñol is expected to bring his poll protest against incumbent Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza to the Supreme Court (SC) after the Commission on Elections’...

Nation

Piniriso sa CPDRC di pagawason sa election

By Chester Abadilla/WC | June 17, 2012 - 12:00am

Ang Commission on Elections (COMELEC) mipasalig nga ang mga piniriso sa Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) makabotar sa sulod sa maong bilanggoan busa dili na kinahanglang mogawas...

Banat Balita

'PCOS machines better than manual system'

By Marvin Sy | March 23, 2012 - 12:00am

The precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has opted to buy and use for the 2013 election, in spite of its reported flaws, are still better than going back to the old...

Headlines

Zubiri wants barangay, SK polls reset to October 2012

By Christina Mendez | July 10, 2010 - 12:00am

Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri is moving for the postponement of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections set in October this year to October 2012.

Nation

Do manual audit now, Comelec urged

By Dennis Carcamo | April 6, 2010 - 9:57am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should decide immediately on the implementation of the random manual audit as mandated in the poll automation law, according to a Liberal Party senatorial candidate.