May 21, 2013     Manila, Philippines
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Monday, May 20th, 2013

‘2013 elections a technological, political disaster’ – election watchdogs

“What happened in this election “are very serious concerns of the Filipino people….This constitutes a grave travesty of the peoples’ right to suffrage and the integrity of the votes”– AES Watch Related Story: Comelec ‘shortcuts’ made votes vulnerable to manipulation – election watchdogs

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Martial law victims call on gov’t to implement reparation law

“We seriously hope that the Human Rights Victims Claims Board will be composed soonest. Martial law victims cannot afford to be disenfranchised, much more neglected again.” - SELDA

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Kapunan claims no knowledge of the Olalia-Alay-ay double murder

Accused former Air Force Col. Eduardo Kapunan admitted in court that he ordered the surveillance of labor leader Roland Olalia, who was later found brutally murdered with companion Leonor Alay-ay, in 1986.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Privatization will affect poor patients, government health workers

For public health workers, serving the Filipino people should always be the government’s priority.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Canvassing of votes, not spared from problems

When the unofficial results being tallied by the PPCRV yielded a numerically improbable total, Smartmatic technicians proceeded to change a script of the source code, which, to IT experts, proves that the election results could easily be...

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

PCOS machine malfunctions raise questions on election results

Instead of releasing partial, unofficial results and providing “trends” based on unreliably tallied votes, the Comelec must order the manual counting of votes.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares

Monday, May 13th, 2013

Widespread PCOS troubles mar voting nationwide

During the 2010 elections, 16-percent of reports to Kontradaya involved PCOS machines; this election, it made up three of every five reports to KontraDaya. Read also: Machine woes hound first hours of voting in Metro Manila –...

Saturday, May 11th, 2013

A quick look at select candidates for Senator in the 2013 elections

There are 33 candidates for Senator vying for 12 seats in the upcoming May 13 elections. Some are names with political pedigree, some without. Some are worth considering, some raise eyebrows. But all of...

Friday, May 10th, 2013

‘Source code review too late to make elections honest, secure’

“It does not take too much brain matter to come to the conclusion that all these media releases are just for show. We don’t have a real source code for 2013 that is available and open. We’ve...

Friday, May 10th, 2013

Can Filipinos ever get rid of political dynasties?

If pre-election surveys are to be believed, the final pre-election poll conducted by the Social Weather Stations on May 2 and 3 shows that nearly all who “got in” the Magic 12 are those with political pedigree.

Friday, May 10th, 2013

The champion of women in Congress

Women’s activism is in their blood and they pursue it in the streets and within the halls of Congress.

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