Blog Posts on electoral violence
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Comelec, UN move to strengthen polls by Senate Race 2013 on Jul 3, 2011The Comelec is on track in its preparations for the 2013 midterm elections with an eye on new technology to make the computerized polls better than last year. “This early, we want to prepare already” according to Commissioner Lucenito Tag...
Losing bet’s son torches Lanao Norte school building after village polls by Dateline Philippines on Oct 27, 2010ILIGAN CITY, Philippines – Gunmen, allegedly led by the son of a losing candidate for barangay captain, burned down a two-room elementary school building in Barangay Mamaanun, Balo-i town, Lanao del Norte Monday night, a few hours after the baranga...
3 killed, 1 wounded in Masbate poll violence by Dateline Philippines on Oct 26, 2010MANILA, Philippines – Two relatives of an incumbent village chief and another wounded when they were ambushed allegedly by followers of a rival candidate for barangay captain in Masbate province late Monday afternoon. (Anthony Vargas)...
More violence, less death in 2010 village polls – PNP by Dateline Philippines on Oct 26, 2010MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday said more poll-related violence had been recorded during this year’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections than in 2007 but that there were also fewer deaths this year. (...
Military: Ballot snatching, grenade blast in Maguindanao by Dateline Philippines on Oct 25, 2010MANILA, Philippines – The military Monday morning reported at last two incidents of electoral violence in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in Maguindanao province, including one in which a candidate’s supporters snatched ballot box...
Village polls ‘generally peaceful’ – PNP by Dateline Philippines on Oct 25, 2010MANILA, Philippines – Despite delays in the delivery of ballots that postponed voting in more than 2,000 villages nationwide and pockets of violence, security officials declared Monday’s barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan polls “generally peacef...
Poll watchdog now counts 182 ARMM hotspots by Dateline Philippines on Oct 24, 2010COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The Commission on Election's (Comelec) deputized election watchdog in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) says there are a total of 182 potential hotspots in the region in Monday’s barangay and Sangguniang...
Ampatuan-like political warlordism in Makati City? by www.betterphilippines.com on Feb 14, 2010One wonders how Binay has been able to rule Makati City for 24 years and just recently, there was an indication of how this happened. Whenever someone challenges him for the mayoralty post, they seem to run into all sorts of difficulties. Campaign...
What gun ban? by www.betterphilippines.com on Jan 5, 2010Comelec Resolution 8714 states that: “No person shall bear, carry or transport licensed or unregistered firearms or deadly weapons in public except for the regular plantilla of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Armed Forces of the Philippines (...
