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Marites Dañguilan Vitug

By Marites Dañguilan Vitug
THOUGHT LEADERS
Rappler.COM

ON October 31, the last day of voter registration, a crowd waited outside the COMELEC office in Santa Ana, Cagayan.  They were about 200 and they were beating the deadline; most of them, reports say, were employees of locators based in the Cagayan Special Economic Zone, a free port.

COMELEC Union bewails Enrile's bullying of a poll employee

PRESS RELEASE
COMELEC Employees Union
November 5, 2012

THE rank and file employees union of the Commission on Elections today deplored Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile's mistreatment of an Election Officer in Cagayan province during the last day of voters' registration on October 31, 2012.

Cagayan election officer decries treatment by Enrile

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile

By: Melvin Gascon and Cathy Yamsuan
Philippine Daily Inquirer

TUGUEGARAO CITY (Nov 5, 2012) - The election officer of Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Sunday bewailed what she called the "unkind treatment" she received at the hands of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and his nephew, Jose Mari Ponce, on the last day for voter registration on Oct. 31.

Critics gang up on COMELEC chief over decision to use PCOS machines in 2013 polls

Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr.

By:  Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Friday, March 23, 2012

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.