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In an op-ed published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer and later in the University of the Philippines College of Law's website, law professor and Action for Economic Reforms fellow Dante Gatmaytan argued that Comelec First Division's decision should be reversed, writing that "The majority opinion allows a person who continuously failed to file ...
Aquilino L. Pimentel III versus Juan Miguel Zubiri (SET Case No. 001-07), better known as Pimentel v.Zubiri, is a Senate Electoral Tribunal case that resolved the election protest filed by Koko Pimentel after the proclamation of Migz Zubiri as senator after the 2007 Philippine Senate election.
On 3 November 2022, former acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology Eliseo Rio Jr., former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Gus Lagman, and ex-Finance Executives Institute president Franklin Ysaac, filed a "politically neutral urgent petition" in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, wherein they alleged that in the 9 May 2022 presidential ...
Financial contributions from foreign governments and their agencies to political parties, organizations, coalitions, or candidates related to elections constitute interference in national affairs, and, when accepted, shall be an additional ground for the cancellation of their registration with the commission, in addition to other penalties that ...
Executives at Smartmatic, a voting machine company that is separately suing Fox News for defamation, are facing bribery charges related to its business in the Philippines.
In the Philippines, a nuisance candidate is an official term for an aspirant candidate for a public office whose certificate of candidacy was not accepted by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) either motu proprio by the election body itself or upon a verified petition of an interested party.
In addition, “at least six states enacted seven election interference laws….Many create criminal penalties for election workers for minor mistakes such as not allowing a poll watcher to stand ...
Electoral fraud, illegal interference with the process of an election Vote buying , when a political party or candidate distributes money to a voter with the expectation that they will vote for them Voter impersonation , when an eligible voter votes more than once or a non-eligible voter votes under the name of an eligible one