2007 Elections

Philippines police, Comelec painting rosy picture of polls – Bayan

MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today scored the Commission on Elections and the Philippine National Police for its ?seeming disregard of the reality of rampant fraud and violence marring the 2007 elections.?

?The PNP and the Comelec continue to paint a rosy picture of the elections. There is hardly any recognition of the gravity of the problems of violence, disenfranchisement, vote-buying and outright vote manipulation. How can they say that the elections are peaceful when more than 100 have died and the death count is expected to get higher?? said Bayan chair Carol Araullo.
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Philippines: Gabriela condemns AFP and PNP harassment, disenfranchisement of voters

MANILA – Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Liza Maza condemned one of the first reported cases of harassment by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police against Gabriela and progressive partylist groups, and the opposition in polling centers in Batangas and Laguna.

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Arroyo to blame for low turn-out in Philippines overseas vote

MANILA — The country?s broadest alliance of OFWs and their families today laid the blame for the low OAV turn out on Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

?If OFW voters are disillusioned and disenfranchised, it?s because of the Arroyo regime. In this regard, it is completely unjust for the DFA and the Comelec to even suggest thoughts of scrapping the OAV mechanism altogether. Given the boundless sacrifices OFWs endure to remit billions of dollars into the economy ? it?s downright dastardly for top Arroyo officials to even suggest this ?total disenfranchisement? of OFWs,? says Maita Santiago, Migrante International Secretary-General.

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Hundreds of disenfranchised voters in Tondo, Manila

MANILA — Every vote counts, but not every one who intended to vote today succeeded to do so.

This was the reality documented by members of the Peoples’ International Observers Mission (Peoples IOM) Manila team who received complaints of missing and deactivated names in voters’ lists today.
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Foreign observers aghast at fraud in Philippines election

MANILA — Foreign observers from the Makati team of the People’s International Observers Mission (People’s IOM) witnessed first-hand an incident of vote-buying on the eve of the elections at 10 p.m., May 13, near the intersection of United Nations Avenue and Taft Avenue, in Manila.
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