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The COMELEC was created by a 1940 amendment to the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines.Prior to the creation of the COMELEC, supervision over the conduct of elections was vested by law in the Executive Bureau under the Department of Interior and, later directly by the same department.
Voter registration in the Philippines is the process of filing an application to have a voter's record at the Commission on Election in a specific date and designated places set by the Comelec. [ 1 ]
COMELEC and Miru Systems sign the ₱17.9 billion contract for the FASTrAC project. On December 14, COMELEC conducted its first public bidding for a contract for the full automation system with the transparency audit count (FASTrAC) project amounting to a maximum of ₱18.827 billion. The South Korean firm Miru Systems was the sole bidder for ...
Alongside the debates organized by COMELEC, other media organizations held debates for the two positions. A presidential debate, organized by Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI), took place on February 15 and was attended by four candidates. [3] CNN Philippines held their own debate on February 27 and was attended by nine candidates. [4]
On March 27, 2016, hackers under the banner "Anonymous Philippines" hacked into the website of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and defaced it.The hackers left a message calling for tighter security measures on the vote counting machines (VCM) to be used during the 2016 Philippine general election on May 9. [1]
On May 10, the Comelec's en banc, in a vote of 6-0-1, upheld its earlier dismissal of two sets of similar cases—or a total of four appeals or petitions filed as early as November 2021—that sought to bar Marcos from the 2022 presidential race because of his conviction in a 1990s tax case.
In the Philippines, Congress has the power to create new congressional districts. Congress can either redistrict the entire country within three years after each Philippine census, or create new districts from existing ones piecemeal, although Congress has never redistricted the entire country wholesale since the approval of the 1987 ...
The COMELEC expected to proclaim a winner in the morning following the election. [29] George Garcia, chairman of the Commission on Elections, is a registered voter in the district and voted at Indang. [30] On February 26, COMELEC proclaimed Remulla as the winner, taking just over two-thirds of the vote, with a voter turnout of less than half of ...