Comelec and the theater of fraud

MANILA, Philippines — The May 14 mid-term elections is one political exercise that establishes the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as a constitutional poll body whose credibility is suspect. Three years earlier, in the May 2004 presidential elections, the Comelec figured in the monumental cheating that saw Gloria M. Arroyo elected to the presidency. The electoral fraud triggered widespread calls for electoral reform starting with the revamp of the poll body. However, the calls fell on deaf ears and the alleged perpetrators of election cheating from the Comelec were not prosecuted and were even promoted, some as regional or provincial directors.
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