The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be introducing additional automated features to ensure transparency during the 2022 national elections. (COMELEC) "Some other features not used in 2019 elections will be introduced in 2022," said Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo in a press briefing...
The focus should first be on encouraging Filipinos to register and vote, and not yet on the personalities who might seek elective posts in the 2022 polls. Senator Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan (Senate of the Philippines) This was Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan's position when asked about former...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has defended its deal with international company Smartmatic to provide software to be used for the general elections next year. (COMELEC) Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said that they "did not choose Smartmatic" to provide the automated system for the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday, May 14, asked the Senate to immediately decide on the proposals to postpone the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). (COMELEC) At the last hearing of the Senate local government committee on...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said voter registration will resume in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus area on May 17. (COMELEC) Comelec Executive Director Bartolome Sinocruz, Jr. said voter registration activities will resume in the Offices of Election Officers (OEOs) in Metro Manila,...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is eyeing the possibility of conducting a "hybrid" presidential debate in the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB "Definitely there will be a presidential debate but then again the question is if it will be face to face or virtual," Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo...
Starting Friday, May 14, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will be holding virtual media conferences in relation to the 2022 National and Local Elections (NLE). (COMELEC / MANILA BULLETIN) “We will be instituting these regular public briefings as an integral part of our preparations for the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is doubling efforts to encourage more first time voters to register through the poll body’s online voter registration platform “iRehistro.” John Paul Martin, city election officer, said that while application for registration in some Comelec offices...
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms has approved the committee report on the substitute bill that seeks to strengthen the field offices of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The draft substitute bill on House Bills Nos. 511, 1669, 4853, 4985, 5190, 5270, 5305, 5524, 5563, 5649...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is reviving the "PiliPinas Debates" in the May 2022 polls. Comelec/MB "Are we going to have PiliPinas debates? Hell yeah, we will," Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez said in an online forum Sunday, May 9. "It will happen," he added. The poll official, however,...
The contract for the procurement of Automated Elections System (AES) Software for the Election Management System (EMS), Vote Counting Machines (VCMS) and Consolidation & Canvassing System (CCS) that will be used in the May 2022 polls has been awarded to Smartmatic. Comelec/MB "On behalf of the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said satellite registration will resume and a new voter registration schedule will be implemented in areas under General Community Quarantine (GCQ), Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) or no quarantine classification beginning Monday, May 10....
