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SELMA, United States (AFP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday stressed the importance of knowing the whole of US history, both “good” and “bad,” as he commemorated the brutal suppression 58 years ago of a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama. “History matters,” the president said during a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where a march of hundreds of peaceful activists was violently suppressed by police on March 7, 1965. “Bloody Sunday” only catalyzed […]
Postponement would mean another round of voter registration, says Comelec (Eagle News) – A committee of the House of Representatives approved the proposal to postpone the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) to December next year. The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms voted on Tuesday, August 16, to move the elections from the original schedule on December 5, 2022 to December 4, 2023. With a vote of 12-2, the House panel members approved […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s parliament began voting Monday for a new president, with a female politician from the country’s marginalised tribal community the favourite for the post. Droupadi Murmu, from the Santhal tribe, has been nominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party for the largely ceremonial position. If elected, she would be India’s first tribal president and second female president. The incumbent, Ram Nath Kovind, is the country’s second […]
(Eagle News) — On May 9, 2022, the first national and local elections in the country that will happen amid the Covid-19 pandemic, begins. Here are the steps to follow for voters who will troop to the polls to exercise their right to vote. It would help for the voter to check his precinct number before going to the voting center, by checking the Commission on Elections’ precinct finder (See link here: https://voterverifier.comelec.gov.ph/voter_precinct) Click […]
Each country in the European Union has its own rules for voting in the May 23-26 elections to the bloc’s parliament. Here is an overview. – Who votes when? – Twenty-one of the EU’s 28 members go to the polls on May 26, a Sunday, including France, Germany and Poland. Britain and The Netherlands vote on Thursday May 23; Ireland on the 24th; Latvia, Malta and Slovakia on the 25th. In the Czech Republic, voters […]
(Eagle News) – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) sees no reason to extend voting hours for the May 13 midterm elections despite reports of polling precincts which opened late, or delays in the voting due to defective vote counting machines. “Extension is not necessary because the voting hours by design is already flexible,” according to Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez. Jimenez explained that voters who are within the vicinity of the polling precincts would still […]
(Eagle News)—Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol’s voting in Kidapawan was delayed on Monday, May 13, after the vote-counting machine refused to accept his ballot. In a Facebook post, Piñol said after an hour of waiting following the rejection, he asked the 3-member electoral board in his polling precinct in Paco to examine what went wrong. He said after a “thorough inspection,” the chairperson noticed that there was a “ballpen marking on the edge of the ballot.” […]
(Eagle News)—-Quezon City representative and mayoral candidate Vicente Crisologo has been released pending further investigation. Crisologo was ordered released by the Quezon City Prosecutors Office a day after he was nabbed for allegedly trying to stop the arrest of his supporters who were supposed to be engaged in vote-buying in Barangay Bahay Toro. Apart from Crisologo, his son Edrix and over 40 others were arrested. The younger Crisologo had said in a television interview that […]
Comelec urges public to report incidents of vote-buying (Eagle News) – Some 61.8 million Filipinos are expected to troop to polling precincts nationwide for the May 13, 2019 midterm elections which starts at 6 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) urged voters to go out and vote and report incidents of vote-buying. There are 43,554 national and local candidates vying for 18,071 positions for this elections — from senator to […]
(Eagle News) — Do not terrorize, intimidate voters. President Rodrigo Duterte had this to say to individuals running in the 2019 elections, saying he himself would have them arrested if they did so. “Hayaan mo ang tao kung sino ang piliin nila — maski piliin nila yung parang aso ‘yung ugali. E pasensiya tayo. That’s the will of the people. It’s the will of God. Iyon ang pinili ng tao,” Duterte said during the turnover […]
By Nova Safo with Jocelyne Zablit Agence France-Presse LOS ANGELES, CA (AFP) — Andrew Menck didn’t bother to vote in the last seven congressional elections but, determined to deliver a rebuke to Donald Trump’s presidency, he joined the lines outside his local polling station that built up before dawn. “I disapprove of the president’s actions,” said the 34-year-old, a Chicago voter who sees his ballot as a chance for real scrutiny of a president who […]
