Comelec wants online voting for OFWs

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes wants overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to vote via the Internet.

 

"Hindi practicable pumunta sa embassy or consulate…The solution is Internet voting, we will push for that.”

 

Under existing Philippine laws, voters need to vote personallly in the precinct where they are registered.

 

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He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

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Philippine Political Dynasties: The winners and losers in 2013 Elections

What is a political dynasty? A common meaning is the repeated election and re-election of close relatives with the same surname to offices in the local and national governments.

Majority of political families will continue to control power in their localities, with some emerging with perfect results, such as 11 undefeated Singsons in Ilocos Sur, the three winning Marcoses in Ilocos Norte, and four victorious Garins in Iloilo.

ALSO READ: Politics in Ilocos Sur: A Family Business

Three out of four Villafuertes lost in Camarines Sur, with Jesse Robredo's widow Leni Robredo notably beating the wife of the province's patriarch Luis Villafuerte Sr. Two out of three Remullas lost in Cavite, as well as two out of three Fuas in Siquijor. Two of four Garcias in Cebu are on the verge of losing.

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Author: Paul Michael Camania Jaramillo

Student| Youth Advocate | Leader | Environmental Advocate | Writer | Blogger | RH Advocate

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
I write about darkness because I want to show the light — Jose Rizal

He has been involved in different advocacy and defending human rights. As a blogger, writer, netizen and an advocate, he has found focus & interest on sexuality & reproductive health, deaf rights & legal access and youth development, leadership, environment advocacy, issues in the nation and in the world, religion, culture and human rights At the age of 14, he has fully embraced the call of leadership.

He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

Paul is a BS Accountancy student at the Northwestern University. He works for CBAA Biznews and  The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points. He is the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Ilocos Chairperson. CEGP is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific.

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Comelec eyes October 2013 barangay, SK elections postponement

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) wants to postpone the barangay (village) elections in October to 2014, poll chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Monday.

"I'd like to postpone the barangay elections. I'd rather prepare for 2016. I suggest, October 2014 or January 2015 [for barangay polls].”

 

Brillantes will endorse to Congress a bill postponing the October 2013 barangay elections.

“There are already pending bills, we will endorse them. Officially I will endorse a postponement,” he said.

In the Senate, Sen. Ramon Bong Revilla has filed Senate Bill 3242, which aims to synchronize the barangay and SK elections with the May 2016 national and local elections. Meanwhile, Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. filed bill Senate Bill 2377, which seeks to postpone the polls to October 2015.

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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
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He has been involved in different advocacy and defending human rights. As a blogger, writer, netizen and an advocate, he has found focus & interest on sexuality & reproductive health, deaf rights & legal access and youth development, leadership, environment advocacy, issues in the nation and in the world, religion, culture and human rights At the age of 14, he has fully embraced the call of leadership.

He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

Paul is a BS Accountancy student at the Northwestern University. He works for CBAA Biznews and  The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points. He is the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Ilocos Chairperson. CEGP is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific.

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Villar, Ejercito, Honasan proclaimed

The National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) on Saturday proclaimed Cynthia Villar, JV Ejercito, and Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan as Philippine senators. Other senators-elect who attended the proclamation included Nancy Binay and Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III.

SEE: OFFICIAL Tally of Votes for the 2013 Senatorial Race   

The NBOC decided to proclaim them after processing the last certificate of canvass (COC) locally, which was from Lanao del Norte. The board will canvass all COCs from overseas after the proclamation.

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He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

Paul is a BS Accountancy student at the Northwestern University. He works for CBAA Biznews and  The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points. He is the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Ilocos Chairperson. CEGP is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific.

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PROKLAMASYON | Binalewala ng Comelec ang boto ko

Photo from Philippine Star

Naiproklama na ng National Board of Canvassers ang anim na nangungunang kandidato sa pagka-Senador.

Hindi ako tutol dito. Kita naman. Sa PARTIAL UNOFFICIAL tally pa lang, angat na ang pangalan nila.

Ngunit ang masakit siguro para sa akin ay ang pagmamadali ng Comelec na iproklama ang anim na ito. Marami na naman akong nabasa sa Twitter na nagtatanong kung bakit hindi sumipot si Nancy Binay sa proklamasyon.

Siguro ang dapat na itanong natin, "Paano ang boto ko? Nasaan ang boto ko?"

Bago maiproklama ang anim na senators-elect, 72 (first proclamation; 113- second proclamation) certificates of canvass o 13,384,981 boto pa lamang ang na-canvass ng NBOC gayong mayroong 301 COCs. 

Para naman nilang sinabing, walang kwenta ang boto ng ibang rehistradong Pilipino. 

Igalang niyo naman ang mga Pilipinong lumahok sa halalan. Nakipagsisikan sa mahabang pila, nagbabad sa araw. 

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Author: Paul Michael Camania Jaramillo

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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
I write about darkness because I want to show the light — Jose Rizal

He has been involved in different advocacy and defending human rights. As a blogger, writer, netizen and an advocate, he has found focus & interest on sexuality & reproductive health, deaf rights & legal access and youth development, leadership, environment advocacy, issues in the nation and in the world, religion, culture and human rights At the age of 14, he has fully embraced the call of leadership.

He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

Paul is a BS Accountancy student at the Northwestern University. He works for CBAA Biznews and  The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points. He is the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Ilocos Chairperson. CEGP is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific.

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Aquino, Pimentel, Trillanes proclaimed

The Commission on Elections sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) proclaimed Friday night Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino, Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel, and Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes IV as winning senatorial candidate.  

 

Their proclamation is based on the 113 certificates of canvass out of 301, or 38.87 percent counted by the NBOC.

Of the 3 administration candidates from the President's slate Team PNoy however, only Aquino attended the proclamation on Friday, May 17. Trillanes was out of town while Pimentel said he disagrees with the early proclamation of the NBOC.

SEE: OFFICIAL Tally of Votes for the 2013 Senatorial Race 

Six senators were proclaimed Thursday night, May 16, by the NBOC despite opposition to it by the United Nationalist Alliance and other sectors.

Pimentel has questioned the propriety of the Commission on Elections’ early proclamation of six senators-elect, five of them administration candidates, calling it “premature” and “wrong.” 

READ: PROKLAMASYON | Binalewala ng Comelec ang boto ko

He said there was no doubt that the six proclaimed senators-elect already had secured their seats in the Senate but, he added, the National Board of Canvassers should have acted strictly “in accordance with the law and procedure.” 

 

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Author: Paul Michael Camania Jaramillo

Student| Youth Advocate | Leader | Environmental Advocate | Writer | Blogger | RH Advocate

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
I write about darkness because I want to show the light — Jose Rizal

He has been involved in different advocacy and defending human rights. As a blogger, writer, netizen and an advocate, he has found focus & interest on sexuality & reproductive health, deaf rights & legal access and youth development, leadership, environment advocacy, issues in the nation and in the world, religion, culture and human rights At the age of 14, he has fully embraced the call of leadership.

He was a Lussoc National High School 'The Sring' and 'Ang Batis' news editor. A radical visionary leader, he has led organizations of the Supreme Student Government, Science Club, Youth for Environment in Schools Organization, Interact Club, Math Club, Philippine National Red Cross and other organizations in their institution. He was also awarded as a distinguished student leader as a former officer of the Supreme Student Government and received President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Campus Journalism Award. He attended two National Leadership Training for the Student Government Officers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, Youth for Environment Summer Camp, Science Leaders Congress and Schools Press Conference. Joined and won in the several contests from their school to the national level.

Paul is a BS Accountancy student at the Northwestern University. He works for CBAA Biznews and  The Blog of Innocence: SilentVoice Points. He is the College Editors Guild of the Philippines-Ilocos Chairperson. CEGP is the oldest and broadest intercollegiate alliance of student publications in the Asia-Pacific.

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Grace Poe spends P70 million for her campaign

Grace Poe with her son, Brian

In an interview with ANC's "Headstart," Poe said she only spent roughly P60 to P70 million for political advertisements to boost her bid to the Senate. 

 

She said the money came from the pockets of her parents and from people who believed in her capability to hold a national post.  

"Like mga P70 [million]...or baka less ha," she said. "I think it's something like that."

 

She also recalled how her friends from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) urged her to put up a "lugawan" where private individuals can donate for her campaign expenses. 

 

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