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Overseas Absentee Voting Act R.A. 9189 states that all Filipino citizens abroad [6] who are not disqualified by law and at least 18 years old by the time of elections will be entitled to vote. The eligible individuals are required to file their applications personally at the Philippine embassy or consulate nearest their region.
Just six weeks before the 2016 Philippine general election, the COMELEC website was hacked by a group called "Anonymous Philippines" on the night of March 27, 2016. [19] Anonymous Philippines asked the poll body to implement security on Precinct Count Optical Scanners (PCOS)—automated voting machines. [20]
Directing the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office to set aside a portion of the Standby Fund under Executive Order No. 201 (S. 2003) to cover the financial requirements of the national government's response to cases of COVID-19 in the country, Amending EO No. 201 and for other purposes.
While the law was first used for the 1998 election, and several parties did meet the 2% quota during the succeeding elections, they did not fill up the required 20% allocation for party-list representatives of the constitution. Furthermore, the votes for parties that had more than 6% of the vote were considered wasted. [4]
There were a few attempts to nationally elect local officials during the Spanish colonial period. Following the defeat of Spain in the Spanish–American War and the Philippines later in the Philippine–American War, the Captaincy General of the Philippines and the First Philippine Republic were replaced by the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (which was established by the United ...
A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have ...
The court allowed the upcoming elections to proceed, but stressed that the currently-serving officials' terms ended on December 31, 2022, as per RA 11462, which had been repealed by RA 11935. The court also ruled that the winning officials would serve only until 2025, with barangay elections being held in that year, and every three years ...
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