Election Officers in the National Capital Region (NCR) have turned down a proposal in the House of Representatives to revert the country back to manual system of voting….(read more)…
Archive for February, 2009
OFW registration at the POEA
Overseas Absentee Voters (OAV) need not go through the hassle of going to their respective consulates and embassies overseas to register. They can do it here even before they leave for abroad….(read more)…
A voter’s hope for change
Juhria Salic Abdulrahman is eager to vote in the elections next year. She says, back in her hometown in strife torn Mindanao, she had no opportunity to participate in the polls because of sporadic fighting between government forces and Moro separatists…(read more)…
COMELEC approves PPCRV accreditation, urges students to make use of the Feb. 23 Holiday to register
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) announced today the accreditation of Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) as citizens’ arm of the COMELEC in the ongoing voters’ registration.
On February 19, 2009, the COMELEC en banc approved the PPCRV’s petition for accreditation saying that “the PPCRV has participated in the past electoral exercises where it has ably demonstrated its capacity to promote the public interest and to assist the Commission in the performance of its functions and activities, there is no reason to withhold accreditation to the said entity as citizens’ arm for purposes of the resumption of the general registration of voters.”
The PPCRV is charged by the poll body to act as watchers during registration and to assist the Commission in forming the civic conscience of the Filipino voters and in their education campaign concerning registration.
Meanwhile, the poll body has advised the country’s students who’ll be taking a day off from school on Monday, a national public holiday in commemoration of the 23rd Anniversary of the first EDSA Revolution, to register as voters for the 2010 elections.
“The best way for the youth to mark the 23rd anniversary of the restoration of the nation’s democracy is to signify their love for country by registering as voters,” states COMELEC spokesman James Jimenez, adding that instead of congregating in malls or just staying at home, students should make use of the Holiday on Monday to troop to COMELEC offices nationwide to list up. ###
SPP NO. 08-012
IN THE MATTER OF THE ACCREDITATION OF THE CITIZENS’ ARM OF THE COMMISSION.
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE VOTING (PPCRV) – Petitioner
