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For its performance in the conduct of the recent national and local elections, Commission on Elections Commissioner George Garcia has given the poll body a grade of 8.5 out of a perfect 10.
(PNA file photo) MANILA -The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Friday announced that people with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) symptoms may still cast their votes in the May 9 local and national elections. DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya said a new normal committee was formed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to make sure that the May 9 polls will proceed amid the pandemic. The DILG, Department of Health (DOH), Department of Education (DepEd), and the Department of National Defense (DND) have signed a resolution to enforce the new normal plan. In the polling places nationwide, Malaya said there will be a Covid-19 symptom checking process on all voters with those having signs of the ailment being put in the isolation polling place. Under the scheme, Malaya said the DOH will deploy its personnel where appropriate medicines are made available when the need arises. He noted that the DILG, through the local government units (LGUs), w
Despite the threat of a new Covid-19 surge, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that postponing the upcoming May 2022 polls will not be an option of theirs and vowed to push through with it no matter the circumstances.
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LOCAL ABSENTEE VOTER.Comelec Chairman Saidamen Pangarungan casts his vote as local absentee voter at the poll body main office in Intramuros, Manila on Wednesday (April 27, 2022). He is a registered voter in Marawi City.(Photo from Comelec chairman's office) MANILA-The first day of the three-day local absentee voting (LAV) went on smoothly as there were no reported glitches or untoward incidents so far, an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Wednesday. "Our expectation since the number of local absentee voters is not that many, only 84,000, our initial assessment is, it's generally peaceful, no untoward incident reported," said Comelec Commissioner George Garcia in a press briefing. "We are also happy that the members of the media were able to vote at our regional office here. They have their own 'kodigo' since they will be voting manually," he added. Local absentee voters will only vote for national positions such as president,