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Entries Tagged as 'Election reporting'

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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Tags: Election reporting

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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Tags: Election reporting

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 · No Comments

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

Kenya frees govt data on the internet

July 9th, 2011 · No Comments

President Mwai Kibaki on Friday launched a key website making Kenya the first country in sub saharan Africa to offer loads of government data to its citizens Citizens can now access data and participate in constitutional implementation process as well as hold the government accountable, President Kibaki said. The government has released several large datasets, [...]

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Tags: Economic Reporting · Election reporting · Health · Online Journalism · Political reporting · Press Freedom

Princess to Ampatuans: Pay us P3 billion

July 1st, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines – A niece of Maguindanao Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, whose mother was one of 58 persons killed in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao province, says the alleged killers, led by key members of the Ampatuan clan, should pay her P3 billion for her loss. Ayesha Vanessa Hajar Andamen, who said she [...]

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Tags: Election reporting · Political reporting

Ampatuans’ loyal maid tags former masters as masterminds of 2009 massacre

June 30th, 2011 · No Comments

MANILA, Philippines—After being a no-show at last week’s trial, Lakmodin Saliao, the Ampatuans’ helper of more than two decades, positively identified his former masters as the brains in the 2009 mass murder of 58 people in Maguindanao.

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Tags: Election reporting · Media Landscapes · Press Freedom