RP Elections 2010

I was one of the first 20 voters in my precinct in Matina, Davao City, having arrived there at half past 6am. The polls opened on time at 7am, and by all accounts, all of the PCOS machines in the school were operating nominally. The voting process, however, did not seem faster compared to previous [...]

I just came from the PCOS machine testing & sealing by the BEIs of the Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Grade School in Barangay 3A in Davao City, attended by candidates’ representatives, barangay and school officials, media and curious citizens.
The Smartmatic AES1800 machines tested that I was able to witness were for Clusters 12, 13 and 14 [...]

As Election Day draws nearer, lust for blood of perpetrators of violence also heats up.
There is an upsurge of incidents of election-related violence since the campaign for local elections started in 25 March 2010. Vote Peace 2010 (Vote Peace), a monitoring and campaign initiative against election violence of the Consortium on Electoral Reform (CER), in [...]

You’re a blogger and a concerned citizen, and you’ve decided to do your part by volunteering your time and resources as a watcher/reporter. Here are just a few reminders:
Vote early. So that you can devote your time to monitoring and reporting on the polls, go to your precinct early and cast your vote right away. [...]

The preparations for the first automated elections in the country have been hounded by controversy and difficulties since they began. And on the 11th hour, a “glitch” is discovered. If you ask any computer programmer worth his salt, he’d probably exclaim, “Why only now!?”
Not about why the “glitch” happened only now, but why it was [...]

When President Obama decided to release what is touted as the Torture Memos, he was faced with a dilemma: to hold or not to hold those who authorized the memos accountable.
There are those who argue that President Obama should, because it’s an affront to the basic law of the land, the Constitution. On the other [...]

Possibly unprecedented in Philippine politics, the Second Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has opened a can of worms when it junked last 11 November the petition of Filipino LGBT organization Ang Ladlad in its bid to field congressional candidates for the 2010 general elections under the party-list system. The accreditation rejection, as promulgated [...]

I don’t mind having these presidential debates. In fact, I find it somehow refreshing to see the presidentiables no longer devoting much of their energies to practicing their jingles and dance steps; to see them participating in serious talks although one of them—you know who is he—would prefer cracking jokes to talking serious stuff.
But what [...]