(This report was written by PCIJ intern Julienne Urrea) HALALANG Marangal's (Halal) initial findings reveal significant discrepancies in tallies for senatorial candidates in nine provinces and one city based on data from the Commission on Elections...

IN many ways, the recently held midterm elections were a more-of-the-same affair, with the usual reports of disenfranchised voters on election day; the massive vote-buying and patented cheating operations to manipulate the results perpetrated during the...

THE resignation of Commissioner Rene Sarmiento as head of Task Force Maguindanao -- the investigative panel tasked to "ferret out the truth" in the province's midterm elections -- comes as another blow to an already embattled Commission on Elections...

THEY say politics is addition, but in some cases, it brought division to families. In Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, three brothers slugged it out in the recent polls. Incumbent Mayor Aristeo Atienza, who is on his last term, ran for vice mayor, and...

AS the canvassing draws to a close, complaints of poll fraud pile up before the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Just yesterday, progressive party-list groups filed a case against the entire board of canvassers of Zamboanga Sibugay for the "unusually...

IN 1986, then National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) chairman Jose Concepcion Jr. crisscrossed the country, talking to the families of Namfrel volunteers who had been killed while guarding the ballots. There was the boy, also a...

ON May 14, 2007, around nine in the evening, a teacher in Occidental Mindoro was caught red-handed switching two bundles of ballots at Precinct 0003-A in Mamburao Central School. Length: 00:00:49 File size: 2.7 MB Board of Election Inspector...