One of the biggest challenges facing the COMELEC as we inch ever closer to the resumption of voter registration in September, is how to arrange our offices to protect both the registering public and our personnel, from the dangers of COVID-19 transmission. Seeing as how online registration still hasn’t happened – and probably won’t for […]
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Jul
Jul
Teleconferencing has become de rigeur in COMELEC. Like almost everyone else, we started with Zoom. Now, we’re holding Zoom meetings side by side with MS Teams meeting, while attending Congressional hearings on Webex. It’s funny, coz, even after all this time – we’re on our 4th month of quarantine – everyone is still joking about […]
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Jul
Jul
Repetition is key. Especially now that learning to integrate anti-COVID behavior – wearing face coverings, hand hygiene, and keeping distance from other people – into our daily routines is critical to flattening the transmission curve, these posters from COMELEC might help in that learning process. When citizens come to the Offices of the COMELEC in […]
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Jul
Jul
With this virus not going anywhere anytime soon, it has become an absolute necessity for everyone to imagine all the different ways things will have to change. In a way, we’ve all been forced to become futurists, except that the future we’re envisioning isn’t going to come in a hundred years but, in many cases, […]
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Jul
Jul
Political rallies and elections in general are considered superspreader events in which a small number of people are able to infect a disproportionately large number of others. Research suggests, in fact, that superspreader events are most responsible for how far and how quickly the coronavirus has spread. Imagine having one person with undiagnosed COVID19, attending […]
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Jun
Jun
On my way to Manila this morning, I met GMA’s convoy as it headed towards Balintawak – on her way to Pampanga. It was a long convoy and it had all the attendant big black cars, a scattering of “6” license plates, and flashing red and blue lights. I would’ve taken a picture but, the […]
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Jun
Jun
The title of this blog, as well as the Twitter hashtag that I got it from, was supposed to be ironic. I wanted to chronicle the days I spent – along with everybody else – in quarantine. And through various levels of quarantine, I was able to do that. But with the Metro Manila sliding […]
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Jun
Jun
FAKE NEWS SEEN TO DRIVE UP DEMAND FOR FAKE IDs “The ‘fake news’ that a person has to be a registered voter in order to receive government aid during this COVID-19 national health crisis, seems to have created a market for fake voter identification cards,” COMELEC spokesperson James Jimenez said today. The statement was made […]
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Jun
Jun
by Sarah Asis The numbers of confirmed cases daily are still rising at a worrying rate, and the COMELEC is committed to protect both its personnel and the transacting public from the insidious coronavirus, even as it gave assurance that the delivery of services will not be hampered. This Friday marks the 4th Friday since […]
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Jun
Jun
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