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COMELEC: Palace statement to end 'uncertainty' of village poll's fate
The Commission on Elections is hoping that Malacanang's pronouncement stating that this year's Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) will push through, will put an end to the uncertainty on whether to postpone it or not.

Con-com votes to adopt federal-presidential form of government
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's Consultative Committee (Com-om) which is tasked to review the 1987 Constitution, votes on Tuesday to adopt a presidential-federal form of government as among the constitutional revisions.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has rejected a bid by Romeo Jalosjos, Sr., a convicted child rapist released from prison in 2009 after serving a sentence shortened by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to register as a voter here.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) held a dialogue Thursday with various election stakeholders to thresh out any and all concerns with regard to the May 13, 2013, Automated National and Local Elections.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has imposed a month-long gun ban in July for the general registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The Commission on Elections yesterday said it will ensure that residents of the fifth district of Negros Occidental will be able to freely exercise their right to vote on Saturday.

The Senate approved on 3rd and final reading on Tuesday Senate Joint Resolution No. 17, nullifying the book of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and directing the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to conduct a new general registration of voters in the region.

The Commission on Elections Friday gave assurance that it would conduct general registrations in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Wednesday denied it was about to drop electoral sabotage charges against two former provincial election supervisors accused of rigging the 2007 elections but the Department of justice defended the plan.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday orders the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to file its comment to one of three petitions filed by various parties questioning the COMELEC's purchase of P1.8 billion worth of voting machines that were used during the 2010 elections.


CRITICS, including losing candidates in the 2010 polls, on Thursday ganged up on Chairman Sixto Brillantes of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) because of his decision to reuse precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in next year's elections.

A LAWMAKER has filed a bill which seeks to employ a manual voting system in the May 2013 elections, saying that the use of counting machines in the previous polls was "illegal and irregular."


THE DECISION of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to purchase the 2010 election machines for the 2013 polls could reach the Supreme Court.  Election watchdog Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) said in a statement 




IT's final.  After weeks of dilly-dallying, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) formally decided to exercise the "option to purchase" precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines from 2010 automation vendor Smartmatic.  These will be used in the 2013 national and local elections. 

A poll watchdog said the Commission on Election's (COMELEC) plan to buy Smartmatic Corp.'s used Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines were "illegal" and "risky."


As part of Commission on Elections Strategic Plan 2011-2016 (COMSTRAT1116), the Honorable Chairman Sixto S. Brillantes Jr. Will lead today the signing of the contract to sell and the groundbreaking ceremony for the lot where the COMELEC’s own Main Office Building will be constructed.


The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has held former Cagayan de Oro elections officer Gina Zayas Sabio liable in connection with the mysterious dumping of election materials at the Carmen wasteyard in May 2010, ex-senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said yesterday.


THE JOINT panel of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will assume the lead in the investigation on the alleged cheating during the 2004 national elections. 





The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Wednesday announced the designation of COMELEC Commissioner Lucenito N. Tagle as the new Chairman of poll body’s Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting (COAV). 

Smartmatic International Corp. gave assurances that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used in the country’s first automated polls in 2010 are still in “perfect condition” and can be used again in next year’s elections.


The system of continuing registration of voters and validation of registration records in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will commence on March 5, 2012, and will end on October 31, 2012, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) announced Thursday. 


Commission on Elections (COMELEC) employees in the central and field offices will be putting up posters and streamers calling for the adjustment on their salaries during their lunch break on Friday, September 2011.



House OKs allocation of P8 billion for 2013 poll automation
THE HOUSE appropriations committee has endorsed the allocation of nearly P8 billion for the automation of the May 2013 congressional and local elections.  The amount is 80 percent of the P10-billion 2012 budget of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC). 

  

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