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More than 60 percent of Filipinos still have little or no knowledge of the automated election system barely seven months before the 2010 polls and as many doubt the new technology can help the Philippines reduce entrenched election frauds, a survey said...
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Stunned by the scale of election-related violence in Maguindanao, the Commission on Elections condemned the killings and warned that it would not hesitate to disqualify the mastermind of the massacre from public office. Comelec chairman Jose Melo said:...
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Overseas Filipino worker (OFW) group Migrante International on Friday held a �funeral march" in front of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Manila to protest anew a decision de-listing them as an accredited party-list group.
Tags: Comelec, Philippines, Manila, Jose Melo, Politics, Elections in the Philippines, Commission on Elections, Social Issues
Philippines�The automation partner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has assured the poll body that it would deliver on time the 82,200 poll machines to be used in the 2010 polls. Cesar Flores, Smartmatic president for Asia-Pacific, told the Inquirer.net...
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is to blame for all the delays in the preparations for the automated elections in 2010, a civil society group said Thursday. �Whatever Comelec chairman Jose Melo blames, that the Comelec has done itself," said lawyer...
Tags: Comelec, Philippines, Manila, Smartmatic, Commission on Elections, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Elections in the Philippines, Election technology, Networking hardware, Jose Melo
Until all the 82,000 machines to be used in the first nationwide automated elections are delivered and tested, Commission on Elections Chairman Jose Melo would be having sleepless nights. Melo admitted that despite the assurance given by the winning consortium...
Tags: Jose Melo, poll machines
Commission on Elections Chairman Jose Melo on Tuesday denied that he was the source of the leaked information regarding the Supreme Court�s decision upholding the Smartmatic-TIM�s P7.3-billion poll automation contract. In a six-page comment on lawyer...
Tags: Jose Melo, Philippines, Manila
RP's fragile democracy at risk in 2010 T he justices who voted against automating next year’s polls fear that control of the electoral exercise would be been handed over to a foreign firm. In their dissenting opinions, Justices Antonio Carpio and Arturo...
Tags: Comelec, poll automated, Commission on Elections, Jose Melo, Supreme Court, Harry Roque, grave abuse
The Aboitiz Group on Friday denied any personal or professional relationship between members of the Aboitiz clan and the head of the Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) and stressed that its participation in the poll automation project of the Commission...
Tags: Comelec, Total Information Management Corp., Aboitiz Group, Total Information Management Corporation, Smartmatic International, automation project, Jose Melo, poll automation
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has announced that the winning bidders in the automation project have settled their dispute and would proceed with computerizing the polls in 2010. Comelec chairman Jose Melo told reporters on Friday that Smartmatic...
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