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MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:43 p.m.) — The Supreme Court (SC) has required the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to comment in the petition seeking to annul the P17.9 billion contract awarded to the South Korea-based election service provider Miru Systems for the 2025 elections.
MANILA, Philippines — The decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) barring residents of 10 enlisted men’s barrio or “embo” barangays from voting for their congressional representative in the 2025 midterm elections is a “denial of democracy,” Makati Mayor Abby Binay said yesterday. Comelec Chairman George Garcia earlier explained that these barangays, whose jurisdiction has been transferred from Makati to Taguig following a Supreme Court ruling, do not belong to either of the congressional districts of the two cities.
A MEMBER of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms yesterday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to consider reusing the 97,000 vote-counting machines (VCMs) in next year’s midterm polls to save close to P18 billion.
Senator Win Gatchalian said the enactment of the Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act (RPVARA) would provide reprieve for delinquent taxpayers of real property tax.
PANGYO-RO, South Korea — The Miru Co. Systems Ltd. will tour on Monday officials of the Commission on Elections led by Chairman George Garcia around its four-story factory where the equipment that will be used in the 2025 midterm elections are being manufactured.
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is calling on critics of its poll automation deal with the joint venture led by South Korean firm Miru Systems to respect the sub judice rule of the Supreme Court (SC) and avoid public discussions of the case.
AMID continuous calls for the reuse of the vote counting machines (VCMs) of Smartmatic International in the 2025 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said the decision to tap a new voting technology is not just the poll body’s decision alone.
AN initial 20,000 automated counting machines (ACM), out of a total of 110,000 units to be used in the 2025 midterm polls, will soon be received by the Bureau of Customs (BoC), Commission on Elections Chairman George Erwin Garcia said Wednesday.