Friday, July 6, 2007
Comelec left with nothing
THE fight for the 12th Senate slot between Aquilino Pimentel 3rd and Juan Miguel Zubiri was stalled again after the Commission on Elections found itself with nothing to canvass Thursday.
The Comelec did not make an official announcement that the canvass would resume on Monday. But election lawyers told reporters the certificates of canvass (COCs) from Bogo, Cebu and Bais, Negros Oriental did not arrive at the canvassing center in Manila.
The COCs from Bogo and Bais, along with 38 precincts from Kapalungan, Maguindanao, were among the remaining votes that the National Board of Canvassers has not canvassed.
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So, when do they plan to finish this?? next elections? God! They are so slow. they keep on delaying stuffs! That is why, our country is not improving!
Go on! keep delaying!!!
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The Comelec did not make an official announcement that the canvass would resume on Monday. But election lawyers told reporters the certificates of canvass (COCs) from Bogo, Cebu and Bais, Negros Oriental did not arrive at the canvassing center in Manila.
The COCs from Bogo and Bais, along with 38 precincts from Kapalungan, Maguindanao, were among the remaining votes that the National Board of Canvassers has not canvassed.
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So, when do they plan to finish this?? next elections? God! They are so slow. they keep on delaying stuffs! That is why, our country is not improving!
Go on! keep delaying!!!
Check out the winning numbers here
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Hello...Maguindanao...
Lintang is a good guy who was doing good. - Hello Garci
Bedol worked under Garcillano when the former Commission on Elections commissioner was regional director for Socksargen from 1993 to 1994.
Garcillano, who lost in Bukidnons congressional race in the May elections, is widely believed to be the election official whose phone conversation with President Arroyo where they supposedly discussed the rigging of polls in Mindanao in 2004 was wiretapped.
Garcillano said the allegations against Bedol are not new. He said he was also a victim of the political opposition which accused him of election fraud.
Garcillano said that like him, Bedol is innocent.
I have not heard anything thrown against him except the statement he made that the certificates of canvass in his office were stolen. But there are no accusations that he was the one who authored the 12-0 win of the administration, said Garcillano.
Bedol was flown to Manila on Monday after being arrested in Davao City for ignoring the summons for a Comelec inquiry on poll irregularities in Maguindanao.
The Comelec has remanded Bedol to the custody of his lawyer, Andrei Bon Tagum, a fact that did not escape the barbs of Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, a critic of the Arroyo administration.
The poll body had earlier said Bedol would be put behind bars once he is arrested.
Beltran said he was completely disappointed with the Comelecs previous declaration that it would punish Bedol.
Bedol has been treated like royalty, with the Comelec leadership and Malacaang itself treading carefully around eggs when it comes to him. This is highly suspicious given the already prevalent view that the government is not really keen on prosecuting Bedol out of fear of what the latter might revealevidence damning to Malacaang and its candidates in the concluded senatorial race, Beltran said.
Beltran also challenged the Comelec to recommend criminal or administrative sanctions against Bedol for trying to evade arrest.
The poll body charged Bedol with contempt for failing to attend the counting of votes from Maguindanao, to deliver the municipal certificates of canvass to the Comelec office in Manila; for daring the Comelec to sue him so he could face his accusers in court and flaunting his pistol in public and admitting that he owns an armory.
In the hearing Tuesday, Bedol pleaded innocent of indirect contempt before the Comelec en banc.
He maintained that the warrant of arrest issued against him had no basis because he had not violated any law.
The Comelecs sound and fury over Bedol is most likely just for show, to lessen suspicion that the Comelec and Malacaang itself were actually well aware of what Bedol did in his capacity as Maguindanao commissioner and overseer of the polls in the region. Bedol now walks as a free man, and the poll irregularities including fraud he perpetrated to aid the administrations Team Unity will be swept under the rug, Beltran said. --With Maricel V. Cruz
Article Source
Well, its the same thing everyday... Philippine Politics is getting boring... same crimes, same everything. why dont they stop so itll be more interesting. im talking non sense again.
honestly, thats their strategy. we know that bedol did something wrong. but since Philippine law is lax, this is whats happening..... good luck to our law!!!
Bedol worked under Garcillano when the former Commission on Elections commissioner was regional director for Socksargen from 1993 to 1994.
Garcillano, who lost in Bukidnons congressional race in the May elections, is widely believed to be the election official whose phone conversation with President Arroyo where they supposedly discussed the rigging of polls in Mindanao in 2004 was wiretapped.
Garcillano said the allegations against Bedol are not new. He said he was also a victim of the political opposition which accused him of election fraud.
Garcillano said that like him, Bedol is innocent.
I have not heard anything thrown against him except the statement he made that the certificates of canvass in his office were stolen. But there are no accusations that he was the one who authored the 12-0 win of the administration, said Garcillano.
Bedol was flown to Manila on Monday after being arrested in Davao City for ignoring the summons for a Comelec inquiry on poll irregularities in Maguindanao.
The Comelec has remanded Bedol to the custody of his lawyer, Andrei Bon Tagum, a fact that did not escape the barbs of Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, a critic of the Arroyo administration.
The poll body had earlier said Bedol would be put behind bars once he is arrested.
Beltran said he was completely disappointed with the Comelecs previous declaration that it would punish Bedol.
Bedol has been treated like royalty, with the Comelec leadership and Malacaang itself treading carefully around eggs when it comes to him. This is highly suspicious given the already prevalent view that the government is not really keen on prosecuting Bedol out of fear of what the latter might revealevidence damning to Malacaang and its candidates in the concluded senatorial race, Beltran said.
Beltran also challenged the Comelec to recommend criminal or administrative sanctions against Bedol for trying to evade arrest.
The poll body charged Bedol with contempt for failing to attend the counting of votes from Maguindanao, to deliver the municipal certificates of canvass to the Comelec office in Manila; for daring the Comelec to sue him so he could face his accusers in court and flaunting his pistol in public and admitting that he owns an armory.
In the hearing Tuesday, Bedol pleaded innocent of indirect contempt before the Comelec en banc.
He maintained that the warrant of arrest issued against him had no basis because he had not violated any law.
The Comelecs sound and fury over Bedol is most likely just for show, to lessen suspicion that the Comelec and Malacaang itself were actually well aware of what Bedol did in his capacity as Maguindanao commissioner and overseer of the polls in the region. Bedol now walks as a free man, and the poll irregularities including fraud he perpetrated to aid the administrations Team Unity will be swept under the rug, Beltran said. --With Maricel V. Cruz
Article Source
Well, its the same thing everyday... Philippine Politics is getting boring... same crimes, same everything. why dont they stop so itll be more interesting. im talking non sense again.
honestly, thats their strategy. we know that bedol did something wrong. but since Philippine law is lax, this is whats happening..... good luck to our law!!!
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Sooooooo Sloooooooow...
Mon, 02 Jul 2007
THE winner of the 12th and last Senate seat will likely be known today, when the Commission on Elections finally completes the canvass of the remaining votes in the May 14 elections.
Until now July 4th, the 12th seat remains unknown.
Anyway, I guess there is really no way to improve the poverty percentage here in the Philippines. and I hope that, somebody can prove me wrong. here is an article from gma.tv
Think an average Filipino family can live off P204 a day? Government experts think so, but militants and impoverished Filipinos interviewed by GMA News said the amount was a tiny drop in the bucket.
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), the country's policy-making and organizational agency on statistical matters, said a family of five would need this amount – or P6,120 a month – to meet minimum basic needs.
The NSCB study also showed that families living in Metro Manila need to earn more to satisfy food and non-food basic needs.
The poverty threshold in Metro Manila rose by 5.4 percent, meaning a family of five members to earn P275 a day or P8,254 a month.
Renato Reyes, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, said the government was using these statistics as alleged proof that the country's level of poverty was not worsening.
"Try living under a monthly salary of P8,000 and let us see if you can live a decent life," Reyes told GMA News in Filipino.
In the Philippines, a low-priced rice meal at the leading fast-food restaurant costs about P64 a customer. Gasoline prices are pegged at about P34-37 a liter.
A ticket to the movies, which Filipinos adore as their escape mechanism, sells for about P160 a patron at leading cinemas in Metro Manila.
Salvador Burgos, a factory worker who earns P9,000 a month, is no stranger to belt-tightening measures at his shanty home in Metro Manila.
"If you are not that hungry, it would be better to skip a meal to avoid running short," he said.
The Burgos family thinks the numbers are unrealistic and considers lower food prices as a true reflection of better living conditions in the Philippines.
"Food prices should be slashed a little so it won't be too difficult," Salvador's wife Lorna said in Filipino. - GMANews.TV
God help them and us.
THE winner of the 12th and last Senate seat will likely be known today, when the Commission on Elections finally completes the canvass of the remaining votes in the May 14 elections.
Until now July 4th, the 12th seat remains unknown.
Anyway, I guess there is really no way to improve the poverty percentage here in the Philippines. and I hope that, somebody can prove me wrong. here is an article from gma.tv
Think an average Filipino family can live off P204 a day? Government experts think so, but militants and impoverished Filipinos interviewed by GMA News said the amount was a tiny drop in the bucket.
The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB), the country's policy-making and organizational agency on statistical matters, said a family of five would need this amount – or P6,120 a month – to meet minimum basic needs.
The NSCB study also showed that families living in Metro Manila need to earn more to satisfy food and non-food basic needs.
The poverty threshold in Metro Manila rose by 5.4 percent, meaning a family of five members to earn P275 a day or P8,254 a month.
Renato Reyes, secretary general of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, said the government was using these statistics as alleged proof that the country's level of poverty was not worsening.
"Try living under a monthly salary of P8,000 and let us see if you can live a decent life," Reyes told GMA News in Filipino.
In the Philippines, a low-priced rice meal at the leading fast-food restaurant costs about P64 a customer. Gasoline prices are pegged at about P34-37 a liter.
A ticket to the movies, which Filipinos adore as their escape mechanism, sells for about P160 a patron at leading cinemas in Metro Manila.
Salvador Burgos, a factory worker who earns P9,000 a month, is no stranger to belt-tightening measures at his shanty home in Metro Manila.
"If you are not that hungry, it would be better to skip a meal to avoid running short," he said.
The Burgos family thinks the numbers are unrealistic and considers lower food prices as a true reflection of better living conditions in the Philippines.
"Food prices should be slashed a little so it won't be too difficult," Salvador's wife Lorna said in Filipino. - GMANews.TV
God help them and us.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Bedol: Caught the second time around.
Bedol, who was suspended from his job, was also implicated in an alleged vote fraud in Mindanao during the hotly contested May 2004 presidential election that Mrs. Arroyo won.
His name was mentioned in recorded conversations between a woman sounding like Mrs. Arroyo and a man believed to be another poll official, Virgilio Garcillano, in which it appeared they were plotting to rig the votes.
The President had denied the accusation, but publicly apologized for what she said was poor judgment on her part. The controversy led to two failed impeachment attempts in Congress and a mass resignation of half her Cabinet.
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Bedol is already in the custody of our policemen. We are just avoiding giving further announcements because the media will surely be all over him. I would say that we will bring him to Comelec [Commission on Elections] as soon as possible. Maybe even before [Tuesday], Calderon said.
It was Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police director, who said Bedol was arrested at a clinic in Maguindanao midnight Sunday.
Goltiao said Bedol did not resist policemen who served the arrest order issued Saturday by the Comelec en banc. The arrest order gave the police until July 3 to present Bedol.
He said Bedol underwent a minor eye operation in the clinic and was resting when arrested.
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There are some people who really doesn't learn. If the first election fraud claims were true, he may hve gotten a large mass of money that urged him to do this second election fraud.
but, He was accused for the first time in 2004, that means, you really cant get away with it. why do it again? for money? well, understandable but, rot in hell if you really did it.
Article Source
His name was mentioned in recorded conversations between a woman sounding like Mrs. Arroyo and a man believed to be another poll official, Virgilio Garcillano, in which it appeared they were plotting to rig the votes.
The President had denied the accusation, but publicly apologized for what she said was poor judgment on her part. The controversy led to two failed impeachment attempts in Congress and a mass resignation of half her Cabinet.
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Bedol is already in the custody of our policemen. We are just avoiding giving further announcements because the media will surely be all over him. I would say that we will bring him to Comelec [Commission on Elections] as soon as possible. Maybe even before [Tuesday], Calderon said.
It was Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police director, who said Bedol was arrested at a clinic in Maguindanao midnight Sunday.
Goltiao said Bedol did not resist policemen who served the arrest order issued Saturday by the Comelec en banc. The arrest order gave the police until July 3 to present Bedol.
He said Bedol underwent a minor eye operation in the clinic and was resting when arrested.
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There are some people who really doesn't learn. If the first election fraud claims were true, he may hve gotten a large mass of money that urged him to do this second election fraud.
but, He was accused for the first time in 2004, that means, you really cant get away with it. why do it again? for money? well, understandable but, rot in hell if you really did it.
Article Source
Monday, July 2, 2007
Cebu - Hamster
An international software developer is interested in investing on the Philippine voting system, in response to Republic Act (R.A.) 9369, or the Election Modernization Act, signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in January. Jonji Villa, Smartmatic director for Election Systems Business in Southeast Asia, said the company is relying on Cebu to pilot the automated elections in the barangay elections this October.
The law is there, if we need to accomplish a modernized election by 2010, we need to start now to give more room for improvement during the next national elections, he said.
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They will use cebu and make it as their hamster. I doubt it, that this will prevent cheating. Hackers will easily hack into the system and cheat. Just think, they wont have to go to that place, vote pad or use other ways to cheat. they just need computer, internet and knowledge. goodluck to them.
Votester
The law is there, if we need to accomplish a modernized election by 2010, we need to start now to give more room for improvement during the next national elections, he said.
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They will use cebu and make it as their hamster. I doubt it, that this will prevent cheating. Hackers will easily hack into the system and cheat. Just think, they wont have to go to that place, vote pad or use other ways to cheat. they just need computer, internet and knowledge. goodluck to them.
Votester
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