Communications

It seems like “communication” is the new buzzword in Malakanyang. Aside from the abomination that is “PNoy,” that is.  “Communication” (and that’s the last time I’m gonna put it in quotations since you must’ve gotten the point by now) is certainly an improvement on the old speak-through-the-spokesman approach adopted by GMA. Communication implies a two-way […]

Nullities revisited

In his petition, Roxas asked the Supreme Court, which sits as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, to consider more than 2 million null votes that were not counted by the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines. Null votes were not counted because the ballots were incorrectly shaded, were not shaded at all or the shaded ovals […]

Summiteer

Having attended a few summits more than can be attributed to blind good fortune, I tend to think of myself as having had a bit of experience being ‘the Philippine delegate.’ With the exception of once pulling a joke on my fellow summiteers and, on talent night, singing the dirty version of a world famous […]

Voter Education

Objectives The overarching objective of the COMELEC’s voter education program should be the molding of a generation of new voters who capable of active and principled participation in elections and who are able to accept electoral defeat with integrity and grace. In other words, voter education seeks to create in the Filipino voter, a deeper […]