The remaining days before the May 9 national and local elections must be used by over 65 million Filipino voters to scrutinize their candidates, the Commission on Elections chief urged yesterday.
MANILA - A group of journalists on Thursday expressed opposition to the partnership between the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and online news website Rappler on voter engagement and fighting disinformation in relation to the May 9 polls. In a letter to Comelec acting chairperson Socorro Inting, the National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC), one of the country's oldest and biggest organizations of active press members said the poll body made a wrong decision when it partnered with Rappler. "While we respect the Comelec's right to partner with anyone in order to ensure that the coming political exercise is 'clean, credible, honest and transparent', we believe that your choice of Rappler as a "valuable partner" in the dissemination of "truthful information" is a contradiction that is unacceptable to most Filipinos. We are registering our protest because just like most Filipinos and just like you, we too, would want to see and experience a cl
Published February 24, 2021, 12:12 PM
Election officers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) resorted to the popular social media app Tiktok to encourage qualified voters to register in the May 2022 polls.
Comelec shared the Tiktok video of their election officers in La Carlota, Negros Occidental in their Facebook page, Tuesday, Feb. 22.
#MagpaRehistroKa Spotlight: Comelec La CarlotaApplications for #VoterReg2021 may be submitted from Tuesdays to Saturdays, 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M., at the Office of the Election Officer in your district/city/municipality.Posted by COMELEC on Friday, February 19, 2021
Radyo Comelec also took notice of the Tiktok video of their EOs in La Carlota as well as in Ibaan,Batangas.
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
The voter registration period for the May, 2022 polls began on January 20, 2020.
Due to the threat of the COVID-19, the Comelec suspended voter registration in all offices nationwide in March ahead of the imposition of community quarantine on the island of Luzon.
The suspension was extended several times due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country and the extension of the enhanced community quarantine.
Comelec field personnel used the time of the suspension to put in place anti-COVID-19 measures in relation to the conduct of the registration of voters once it resumes.
Voter registration finally resumed on September 1 except in areas under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) or Modified ECQ.