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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has come out with the list of possible areas where the pilot automated elections will be implemented next year.


Comelec Education and Information Department (EID) director James Jimenez said the advisory council has identified the 12 areas and will submit the list to the Comelec en banc for approval.


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They may be available and usable, but the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is not using the controversial automated counting machines (ACMs) in the coming May 2007 elections.


Comelec Education and Information Department (EID) director James Jimenez said the Comelec will abide by the Supreme Court ruling not to use the automated machines.


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Milagros Desamito, Comelec Education and Information Department (EID) director, said all barangay officials shall remain in their office due to the passage of Republic Act 9340.


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Brawner dies of heart attack

By James Mananghaya and Sheila Crisostomo | May 30, 2008 - 12:00am

Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Romeo Brawner passed away yesterday morning at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City after a massive cardiac arrest.

Headlines

Comelec releases list of pilot areas for poll automation

By Mayen Jaymalin | December 14, 2006 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has come out with the list of possible areas where the pilot automated elections will be implemented next year. Comelec Education and Information Department (EID) director...

Headlines

Comelec won’t use MegaPacific ACMs next year

By Mayen Jaymalin | December 5, 2006 - 12:00am

They may be available and usable, but the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is not using the controversial automated counting machines (ACMs) in the coming May 2007 elections. Comelec Education and Information...

Headlines

Comelec to purge list of political parties, party-list groups

By Mayen Jaymalin | October 14, 2006 - 12:00am

In the effort to ensure an orderly conduct of the elections next year, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced its move to remove "dormant" political parties and party-list groups from the roster...

Headlines

Comelec: Register so you can vote in 2007

May 8, 2006 - 12:00am

Qualified voters were urged yesterday to register at the nearest Commission on Elections (Comelec) office so they can vote in next year’s elections. Milagros Desamito, Comelec Education and Information Department...

Headlines

Barangay officials need not vacate posts till 2007

By Mayen Jaymalin | October 8, 2005 - 12:00am

Incumbent barangay officials can continue performing their duties and need not vacate their posts for the next two years, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) clarified yesterday. Milagros Desamito, Comelec Education...

Headlines

2 suspects in Cinco slay now in custody?

November 30, 2001 - 12:00am

Federico Castro Jr., head of the Western Police District’s Task Force Cinco, told reporters that one of the suspects matched a police cartographic sketch, while the other is an alleged bodyguard of the mas...

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