MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to finish refurbishing the over 97,700 vote counting machines (VCMs) in November that will be used in next year's elections.... Read full article
COTABATO CITY – The House of Representatives approved on second reading Monday the bill seeking to reset the first regular elections of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from 2022 to 2025, a lawmaker from Maguindanao...... Read full article
MANILA – An official of the Office for Overseas Voting (OFOV) of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday reported over 52 percent voters’ participation in the internet voting test run.... Read full article
MANILA – Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, General Guillermo Eleazar, on Monday said he is not discounting the possibility that some gun-running syndicates are using online platforms to sell loose firearms with only nine months left before...... Read full article
MANILA – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives on Friday called for the restoration of the PHP15.5-billion cut made in the proposed budget of the Commission on Elections for 2022.... Read full article
MANILA – An election watchdog group led a series of novena Masses for nine months which started on Thursday until the election day on May 9, 2022.... Read full article
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) on Thursday declared a failure of bidding for the acquisition of additional optical mark reader (OMR) machines for the May 2022 elections.... Read full article
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will conduct a nationwide synchronized voter registration activity in malls on Sept. 11.... Read full article
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday formally accepted his nomination as the official vice presidential candidate of the ruling party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), to ensure the “continuity” of his...... Read full article
DAGUPAN CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) offices in the province of Pangasinan are extending their operating hours until 7 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays to cater to voter registrants.... Read full article
DUMAGUETE CITY – Persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) will be allowed to vote during the May 9, 2022 elections but only within the jail premises on the same day and under the supervision of a special board of election inspectors (BEIs).... Read full article
MANILA – A national federation of trade unions in the power industry called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to investigate the possible violation of election laws by some party-list groups which claim to represent electricity consumers.... Read full article