The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved a recommendation from Election and Barangay Affairs Department Director Teopisto Elnas, Jr. to extend “preferential treatment” to elderly, pregnant, and disabled voters during the country’s first automated elections in May.

The poll watch group Kontra Daya has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ban six party-list groups from the elections for supposedly being fronts for the government.

In a letter to Comelec head [[Jose Melo]], Kontra Daya said that the groups [[Batang Iwas Droga]] (BIDA), [[...

An Albay municipal mayor running for reelection in the May polls is being detained on suspicion of violating the anti-gun ban and is now facing criminal charges and possible disqualification after authorities confiscated from him an unlicensed gun at the Ninoy Aquino International ...

Administration vice-presidential candidate Edu Manzano showcased last Friday his “skills and intelligence” (running mate Gibo Teodoro's slogan “Galing at Talino”) in what bloggers considered their “most revealing” talk so far with a candidate.

Manzano, a Philippine showbiz veteran, rev...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has confirmed the existence of more than 700,000 voters with double or multiple registration records on the voters’ list, raising fears that “flying voters” or those who vote more than once might upset the elections in May.

Comelec’s citizen arm...

704,542 multiple and double registrants were found and weeded out of the voter’s list using a new computer program that checks voters registration records, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Friday.

With the death toll on election-related violence continuing to soar to alarming proportions, the 2010 national polls could easily become the deadliest in the country's history, an anti-terrorism group warned.