2007 Elections

Miseducation of Muslim-Moro electoralism

Analysis | By Datu Michael O. Mastura | Media reporters -- more accurately, opinion editors -- are wrong to say that casting of votes or counting of ballots runs afoul in the ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) simply because Muslim-Moro individuals have low literacy rate. What makes such comments most absurd is anti-Moro profiling of their leaders (if not out of discriminatory slant by sheer slur) who are perceived to keep them illiterate or uneducated enough to organize them into so-called ?command votes? constituency.

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Pimentel bats for gradual automation of Philippines election

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today branded as a canard the
allegation that he had opposed the computerization of
the country?s elections.

Referring to a political advertisement which appeared
in some newspapers blaming him and other legislators
for the poll automation fiasco, Pimentel said he has
always advocated the computerization of elections.
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Canvassing of Maguindanao votes expected today, groups warn of massive protests

?We join all opposition groups and election watchdogs in condemning the massive electoral fraud orchestrated to benefit the administration slate. We must not allow the administration to succeed in its final push to rig the elections through the canvassing of votes in Maguindanao and other questionable regions,? Renato Reyes of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan said.

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Philippines: Election watchdog warns vs rigging votes from ARMM in favor of Team Unity

MANILA, Philippines — Election watchdog Kontra Daya warned against rigging of votes from
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in favor of Team Unity
candidates.

Kontra Daya joined the Concerned Citizens and other groups in a
protest rally, Wednesday, near the Philippine International Convention
Center (PICC) where the national canvassing is ongoing. The Commission
on Elections (Comelec) is set to canvass the votes from Maguindanao on
the same day.
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