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Local Absentee Voting begins; Cops among first to cast ballots

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday kicked off a three-day Local Absentee Voting (LAV) period for the 2025 midterm elections, enabling over 57,000 government...

Comelec orders nearly 100 bets to explain lapses

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday it has issued nearly 100 show cause orders (SCO) to political candidates running for local and national...

Comelec to start deploying ballots

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will start the distribution of official ballots for the May 12 midterm elections starting today. “The ballots will be directly...

Second Mindanao town under Comelec control

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has placed Buluan, Maguindanao del Sur under its control following the ambush of a local candidate in the run-up...

Midterm polls already on for overseas Pinoys

Comelec sees half of 1.3m voters abroad casting ballots The official voting period for overseas Filipino voters began yesterday, with six expatriates in Singapore being...

Windows into their souls

A congressional candidate in Pasig has said at a campaign rally that single mothers, provided they are still getting their monthly period, could sleep...

3.7k poll machines to Mindanao

The Commission on Elections has started the distribution of the first batch of Automated Counting Machines (ACMs), sending around 3,700 machines to three designated...

Information drive

Commission on Election chair George Erwin Garcia together with fellow election commissioners and official observers from PPCRV, NAMFREL and LENTE, led the launching of...

Comelec pauses gov’t ‘ayuda’ ahead of polls

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced that government aid distribution will pause from May 2 until May 12 to prevent misuse of state resources...

Comelec, MMDA launch ‘Grand Oplan Baklas’ as local campaigning begins

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) removed unauthorized campaign materials in a large operation dubbed "Grand Oplan Baklas,"...

AKAP, other gov’t cash aids not covered by Comelec prohibitions

CASH assistance under the government’s Ayuda Para sa Kapos and Kita Program (AKAP) is exempted from the election spending ban being implemented by the...

Comelec says printing of 68.5m ballots now complete

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) reported that it has completed printing over 68.5 million official ballots for this year’s midterm elections, meeting its self-imposed...

Comelec says VP’s election cheating claims ‘impossible’

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed Vice President Sara Duterte's allegations of potential widespread cheating in the upcoming election, stating that such occurrences...

Comelec warns Senate candidates on illegal posters

Six senatorial candidates have been issued a show-cause order by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for violating election laws on the placement of their...
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