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Entries Tagged as 'Election reporting'

NEC Extraction of data, One percent Still Missing

May 14th, 2012 · No Comments

“We still have 1% that cannot be traced and will have to be sorted out during the exhibition phase.” These were the exact words of the Chief Electoral Commissioner/ Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Dr. Christiana A. M. Thorpe while addressing the press and other stakeholders at NEC national data centre, Wellington over [...]

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Sierra Leoneans in Liberia get NEC green light

March 19th, 2012 · No Comments

The Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson for the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Dr. Christiana A.M. Thorpe has disclosed that NEC will recruit about 6,000 personnel for an exhibition exercise.

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President Mills pledges Ghana will remain peaceful even after elections

March 6th, 2012 · No Comments

Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills has pledged peace would continue to reign in the country even after this year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/03/president-mills-pledges-ghana-will.html

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Cool Multimedia approach: See how cheating was done in 2007 Philippine polls

September 6th, 2011 · No Comments

InterAksyon.com, the Philippines newest and fastest-rising news website recently launched a special interactive microsite on the poll cheating in the  2007 Midterm elections.

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Tags: Election reporting · Newsroom Diary · Online Journalism

Fake ballots, certificates of canvass prove massive fraud in 2007 PH elections

August 11th, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines – Fake or highly questionable ballots and certificates of canvass gave strong evidence of “massive fraud” in the 2007 elections, and of how newly-proclaimed Senator, Aquilino ‘Koko’ Pimentel III was for four years unjustly denied a senate seat.

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Philippine senator resigns amid poll fraud allegations

August 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines–  Visibly holding back the tears, Senator Jose Miguel Zubiri announced on Wednesday afternoon resigned from his post despite maintaining his innocence on the alleged poll cheating in 2007.

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Transparency in the Legislature: A German example

August 3rd, 2011 · No Comments

Would it not be fantastic if the Nigerian voter could ask legislators in the state and national assemblies questions directly on issues that affects his or her constituency as well as topical national issues – for example what they think of the controversial Tenure Elongation Bill – and get responses from them in a few [...]

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Tags: Election reporting · Political reporting · Sneak In

PH senator receives video showing alleged poll fraud in 2004

July 28th, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines — Three of eight short video clips given to Senator Panfilo Lacson show several people, including uniformed men, carrying ballot boxes, presumably from the south wing of the Batasan Pambansa during the canvassing of votes for the 2004 presidential elections. 

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Poll fraud could be Zaldy’s ticket out of Maguindanao Massacre charges

July 15th, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has given assurances that suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan, accused of being a principal in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, cannot be freed from detention even if he is accepted as state witness in any case filed over the election fraud that [...]

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Tags: Election reporting · Media Landscapes · Online Journalism · Political reporting · Sneak In

Kenya has a new neighbor as South Sudan joins club of nations

July 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment

East Africa has a new baby. South Sudan is now the sixth East African country and President Salva Kiir is at the helm. For the country with more than 8 million citizens, Saturday will remain a momentous and emotional day. In January, they voted in an historic referendum to separate from the north. UN Secretary-General [...]

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Tags: Election reporting · Online Journalism · Political reporting