MANILA, Philippines -- Ricky Carandang, a reporter for ABC-CBN television, has allegedly received death threats, presumably for his series of reports and exposes on alleged irregularities during the special elections…
MANILA, Philippines — Team Unity is filing over 100 cases of electoral fraud in opposition bailiwicks in Metro Manila and elsewhere where the Genuine Opposition (GO) ticket had supposedly won big, and will ask the Commission on Elections to exclude or re-canvass the Certificates of Canvass (COCs) in these areas, TU official said yesterday.
"They claim that they have the evidence to prove their victory. They claim that they have an anti-fraud infrastructure in place. They claim that they knew of the outcome of the senatorial elections. And with all of these, the GO candidates and its panicky lawyers should rest in peace and allow for the smooth end to the electoral process."
MANILA, Philippines -- So why was Manny Pacquiao KO'd by Rep. Darlene Antonino Custodio in the fight for the congressional seat of the first district of South Cotabato? Former North Cotabato governor (and now vice-governor) Manny Pi?ol, in an article published in philboxing.com, offers an answer: betrayal.
Analysis | Mindanao is exploited to the hilt in the commission of electoral fraud not because of its remoteness. A distinct economic, political and cultural structure renders the region vulnerable to state manipulation verily through the use of the state's apparatuses for state terrorism and coerced mandate through fraudulent elections.