REAL change cannot be expected from voting dynasts into power, the dean of the Ateneo School of Government warned, ahead of the May 9 elections where expectations for game-changing reforms are high. However, in a public social media post, Dean Ronald U. Mendoza said the data indicate that both the…
IT may take a while before the Philippines can maximize the benefits of using big data such as Google Trends, especially for elections, according to local statisticians. Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) Senior Research Fellow Jose Ramon G. Albert told BusinessMirror that the country’s digital divide remains a major…
The world has seen some democratic countries being shaken by the activities of foreign actors trying to influence domestic elections. One study indicated that the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period 1946–2000, followed by…
PRE-ELECTION survey results for the May 2022 polls released by Pulse Asia (PA) may have undersampled young voters and oversampled older voters in their survey, according to a retired government statistician. In a public social media post, former National Statistical Coordination Board Secretary-General Romulo A. Virola said based on his…
The number of eligible Filipino voters has exceeded the total number of the voting population in at least seven regions, based on the estimates made by the former head of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). In a public social media post, former NSCB Secretary General Romulo A. Virola said…