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Comelec earmarks P864 million for election paraphernalia

By Robertzon Ramirez | February 4, 2022 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections will again bid out contracts for the lease of optical mark readers and supply of SD cards to be...

Headlines

Comelec: Intel shows China may sabotage 2016 polls

By Paolo Romero | September 16, 2015 - 10:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has received intelligence reports that China might attempt to sabotage the May 2016...

Headlines

Comelec inks P1.7-B deal with Smartmatic

By Sheila Crisostomo | August 28, 2015 - 10:00am

A P1.72-billion contract to supply 23,000 optical mark reader (OMR) machines for next year’s polls was signed yesterday...

Headlines

Comelec: OMR source code opened to public in October

By Sheila Crisostomo | August 17, 2015 - 10:00am

Vowing more transparency, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will open the source code of the 93,977 optical mark reader...

Headlines

Bautista defends Smartmatic deal

By Sheila Crisostomo | August 15, 2015 - 10:00am

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista defended yesterday the poll body’s decision to lease all-new...

Headlines

Up to Comelec to explain deal with Smartmatic – Palace

By Aurea Calica | August 15, 2015 - 10:00am

Malacañang is leaving it up to the Commission on Elections to explain its deal with Smartmatic-Total Information Management...

Headlines

Brillantes’ detractors can now run after him

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | August 15, 2015 - 10:00am

WITH just 266 days to Election Day, the most sensible thing for the Commission on Elections and everybody else to do is focus on moving forward to ensure clean and credible counting of the votes on May 9, 2016....

Opinion

93,000 OMR units magkakaiba ng presyo?

August 14, 2015 - 10:00am

Bagamat iisang makina lamang at manggagaling sa iisang kumpanya, magkaiba ang presyo ng kada unit ng optical mark reader machine na uupahan ng Comelec para sa 2016 Elections.

Bansa

Smartmatic to supply 93,977 new machines

By Sheila Crisostomo | August 13, 2015 - 10:01am

And the winner is… Smartmatic, again.

Headlines

Time constrained

By COMMONSENSE | By Marichu A. Villanueva1 | August 13, 2015 - 10:00am

With Bautista at the helm of the Comelec, no one will get their way into negating the gains of electoral reforms taking root through these years.

Opinion