Philippines’s poll body to probe missing voters? names

MANILA — As it continues to receive complaints from people who failed to vote in Monday?s elections because their names were not on posted computerized voters? lists (PCVLs), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) created a committee to investigate these incidents.

At a press conference, Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos said although the committee is yet to meet, ?this early I can tell you that we may have misprinted some names.?
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Philippines protests media quick counts for ?trending?

MANILA — Malaca?ang is protesting the quick counts being conducted by media outfits, saying these lead to trending and mind conditioning.

Gabriel Claudio, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s chief political adviser, said the quick counts have a “hypnotic effect” on the public and lead people to believe that “this is what will come out in the end, which [it] is not.”
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