MANILA (MindaNews 29/August) –Sulu residents are bent on filing an objection to the list of voting applicants, despite possible reprisals and threats to their lives, Sulu’s second district representative said. “Tingin ko natuto na rin ang mga tao na lumaban
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/20 August) — The Commission on Elections has postponed the scheduled Election Registration Board (ERB) hearings in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao originally set for this month. The hearings, which will approve or disapprove voter registrations and transfers,
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/3 Aug) – The registration of minors, flying registrants and multiple registrations have remained rampant in the 10-day registration of voters last month in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), according to a task force tasked to
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/26 July) – The governors of the five provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have taken their oath as new members of President Aquino’s Liberal Party (LP). Basilan’s Jum Akbar, Lanao del Sur’ Mamintal Adiong
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/22 July ) — A total of 1.56 million persons trooped to voters’ registration centers in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) from July 9 to 18, a figure that is just 200,000 lower than
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/20 July) – At the close of the 10-day general registration of voters for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), a total of 426,640 have registered in Lanao del Sur, or an 81-percent turnout, according to the
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (MindaNews/18 July) – The Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front peace panels ended their three-day talks here Wednesday with a five-paragraph Joint Statement “expressing confidence in wrapping up” discussions on the transition from the present Autonomous
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/18 July) – Army soldiers swooped into the town of Maguing in Lanao del Sur and arrested 30 suspected flying registrants today, the last day of the two-week registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/17 July) — Flying registrants are getting paid more and “instant registration centers “have cropped up in Marawi City and outlying towns in Lanao del Sur as the registration of new voters reached the final two days, an
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/16 July) — The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) has joined the call for setting up of voters’ registration outside the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to accommodate ARMM voters who are temporarily outside of the region.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 July) – A network of peace groups has asked the government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panels to suspend the election of officials in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in May 2013 to
Last of two parts MAGUINDANAO (MindaNews/14 July) – If the ghosts of registrations past are to be exorcised and electoral reforms are to take root in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) or the future “new autonomous political entity,”
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao (MindaNews/14 July)—Officials are pushing for a more efficient registration process in the village with the highest number of voters here by setting different schedules of each zone to allow them to complete voters’ registration by July
The ghosts of registrations past are back in the five-province, two-city Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), threatening the bedrock of its reform agenda and the very reason why the voters’ list in the region was annulled in the first place: girls and boys made to pretend they are 18 years old and above, hakot (hauling) of “flying” or multiple registrants in exchange for cash, and clustering of barangays that allegedly raises protests from rival politicians.
1st of two parts MAGUINDANAO (MindaNews/13 July) — The girl in black abaya waiting outside a voting registration center at the Datu Pendililang Piang Elementary School in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town on Wednesday afternoon looked 13 or 14 but claimed
LAMITAN CITY (MindaNews/12 July) — The practice of children attempting to register as voters continues in the ongoing general registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), but they won’t get away with it because the Commission
BONGAO, Tawi-tawi (MindaNews/12 July) — The general registration of voters went off to a peaceful start here, the Philippines’ southernmost province, although delays and power shortages slightly marred the event. Election paraphernalia arrived in the capital Bongao only on July
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/11 July) – Fearing for their lives, the entire team of election officers assigned in the municipality of Butig in Lanao del Sur pulled out dawn Wednesday after unruly supporters of warring local politicians fired shots in the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – The head of the country’s election body has witnessed firsthand a perennial problem bugging elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). On Monday, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. did not
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/10 July) — A multi-agency task force started a crackdown on vehicles ferrying “fictitious registrants” on Tuesday after Army soldiers intercepted 13 such vehicles in Saguiaran town in Lanao del Sur on the same day. Col. Dario Bucawit,
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/09 July) – There wasn’t a long queue at the social hall of the Kamasi Elementary School in Ampatuan town although around 20 residents from two clustered barangays lined up to receive their registration forms at the
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/09 July) – Pockets of harassment and delays marred the opening of the general re-listing of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Monday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. Comelec spokesperson James Arthur B.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/09 July) — Flying registrants, the clustering of registration centers, and minors trying to register plagued the first day of the re-registration of voters in Lanao del Sur, an election official said today. Commission on Elections Commissioner Armando Velasco chanced upon a minor, a girl lining up to register at a registration center in Barangay Lower Dansalan, Marawi City on Monday, the first day of registration.
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/08July) — Election officer Tommy Macadingdang sat on the boxes containing generating sets at the motor pool of the Lanao del Sur provincial capitol Sunday, waiting for transportation. It has been hours since he started waiting but Macadingdang was not worried. He was optimistic that transportation will arrive in time for the generators to be delivered to Molundo town in Lanao del Sur.4
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY(MindaNews/7 July)– Gathered in two small hotels in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities, a band of election officers is honing their skills on the biometrics machines that will be used in the registration of voters in
ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/7 July)—Police arrested on Friday two city government project inspectors for violating the gun ban imposed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).[] In an en banc session on June 27, the Comelec promulgated Resolution 9479 that provides for
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews/30 June) – OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman has warned politicians and potential “flying” registrants that cases would be filed against them should they cheat in the general registration of voters on July 9 to 18. Hataman told the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 June) — Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said he has worked out for a Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban during the general biometric registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) next month,
QUEZON CITY (MindaNews/19 June) – The special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) nationwide set for next month will be called off following the Commission on Elections’ decision to give priority to voter registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
