By CHERYLL D. FIEL
It was not the machine glitches that many people were worried about but the poll clerk’s hunt for names of registered voters and other verification procedures that slowed down the voting process in the recently-concluded elections.
DAVAO CITY—Seeing Filipino’s enthusiasm in using search engine Google’s Map Maker and realizing that automated elections will change many designated…
By GERMELINA LACORTE
Foreign observers said they’re aware that Filipinos will be braving bullets and bribes in today’s first ever automated elections but hope that their presence will deter electoral fraud.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has placed the city under its control in the country’s first automated elections.
Dumaguis said they went to follow up a tip on vote buying but they were discovered before they could take footage.
By CJ KUIZON
Three of the five religious groups earlier reported to have been backing the mayoralty bid of House Speaker Prospero Nograles in Davao City denied making such an endorsement.
By GERMELINA LACORTE
Power outages in Davao City has lengthened to two and a half to three hours a day on the eve of the May 10 elections owing to the reduction of power supplied by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines to DLPC which distributes power in the city, Ross Luga, DLPC corporate communications officer, said.
By GERMELINA LACORTE
Twenty-three years after the ratification of the Philippine Constitution that ensured the public’s right to know, the hunt for information in the country remains a deadly game, the former chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said.
