MANILA — The mobile activist group that popularized the Hello Garci ringtone as
a sign of protest over the fraud-ridden 2004 elections expressed
elation over the defeat of former Comelec Commissioner Virgilio
Garcillano in the contest to represent the first district of Bukidnon.
Cheating is possible every step of the way
NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines — Rev. Larry Emery, spokesperson of the Nueva Ecija Team of the People’s International Observer mission, said the team is worried over the irregularities that it has observed in the canvassing of votes at the Guimba Municipal Hall that may show indications of possible election fraud in the area.
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MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said sought the attention and assistance of the media in monitoring the developments in the party-list race, saying that that relative lack of coverage of the party-list elections renders the progressive party-lists vulnerable to the government’s scheme to cheat the party-lists.
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MANILA, Philippines — Foreign observers from the Peoples International Observers Mission (Peoples’ IOM) yesterday were shocked at the conduct of a powerful Presidential appointee and father of two local candidates inside Makati’s polling precincts.
It looks like Filipino world boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has found his match in the petite Darlene Antonino-Custodio. In the last AMA quick count reported by GMA television and inquirer.net,…