#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Let me settle one of the most common questions asked of me once and for all: What happens if I failed to vote in the last two elections? Answer: You get deactivated as a voter and can no longer vote in the next elections. If you wish to reactivate your voting...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Republic Act No. 11235, or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act, is a redundancy in our legal system for the sheer impracticality of its implementation, not to mention that it is an added burden to both motorcycle owners and the Land Transportation Office (LTO)...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal A few days ago, a lawyer from Davao City, Atty. Sitti Gilda Mahinay-Sapie and her husband, Muhaimen Mohammad Sapie, were gunned down just right outside their home in a supposedly very secure subdivision. This adds to the growing number of cases of members of the...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal With less than three months to go before the deadline for people to register as voters, we need to remind our family and friends that if they haven’t yet applied as voters, they should do it as soon as possible. To help, the following are answers to FAQs...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Under the law, “every barangay shall have at least one precinct. Each precinct, shall have no more than two 200 voters and shall comprise contiguous and compact territories.” This means there’s a limit to the number of voters per precinct. However, if...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal What is confirmation bias? Confirmation bias is defined as the “tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with one’s existing beliefs. This biased approach to decision making is largely unintentional and...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal I delayed writing this article in the hopes of being proven wrong about the quarantine restrictions, and how it’ll be announced and implemented. I and many others were hoping that the new quarantine restrictions would be announced early, the details of which...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Just recently, Japan and the UK announced that there was a new strain that they detected in their country. They found this in people who travelled from the Philippines. The new virus variant is now called the Philippine variant. We join the UK, South Africa,...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Starting this week, Comelec will implement a new schedule for voter registration. Beginning today, the new schedule for accepting applicants for voter registration is as follows: Tuesday till Saturday, 8:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. Note: Monday is disinfection day....
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Last week the Commission on Elections issued a statement that they are considering banning/restricting face-to-face campaigning for the May 9, 2022, elections. Many people reacted to this statement, with many confused as to how that’s even feasible. To make...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal By the time you’ll read this, I’ll be on the road somewhere in Mindanao. I’ll be continuing on the journey to get as many people to register as voters, before the deadline of September 31, 2021. The advocacy to get people to register as voters is...
#ASKGOYO Atty. Gregorio Larrazabal Voter education is something I’ve been pushing for, even after retiring from Comelec in February, 2011. It sometimes feels like a lonely road, as voter education becomes “sexy” only when election approaches. However, the need to hammer to the public the...
