The electoral victory of a senatoriable who hardly had political ads on tv prompted a number of people commenting how the Filipino voters have become more intelligent in choosing their leaders. If the Filipino electorates have indeed become more intelligent, it is a much welcomed development. However, we have all been witnesses to what the Philippine election remains to be—dirty and voters easily swayed by vote buying as cheap as 100 pesos. There are ways, though, on how we can see the fulfillment of having wiser and more intelligent electorates. …

Trillanes victory is a sign that the Filipino voters does not believed only in TV Ads but the platform that a candidate have. We all know that among the Senatoriables Trillanes is one among the candidates with less expenses. But one of the Candidates who has a very big publicity due to their Mutinee in the oakwood and his popular platform “To oust Gloria”
Detained opposition bet Antonio Trillanes IV may soon be proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as the 11th winning senatorial candidate in the May 14 midterm polls, …

Election season is now nearly completed with only 2 more senatorial candidates to be announced below are some links which I thinks will be of your interest.
PCIJ: Missing the Message (Or Why Some Big Ad Spenders Lost) - PCIJ explain why not all senatoriables with big expenditures win their bet.
Batas party-list group seeks 2 more House seats 
Koko Pimentel confident of bagging 12th Senate slot - Well there is still a close fight in the 12th place of the senate. Wether it’s Zubiri or Pimentel
Comelec keeps Lanao Norte gov race hanging - Comelec …

I would like to thank the following blogs who have made a backlink and new links to this site.
Filipino Librarian made post regarding his analysis about the Pinoy Top Blogs: May 2007 . And I would like to thank him for mentioning me about the blogs which shows a great traffic because of election. I think the real reason why got the top position for election related blogs is because this site was fully optimized with the keywords such as ” Eleksyon 2007, Halalan 2007, Senatoriables ,, etc… ” . The site …

As of May 30, 2007 4 p.m. Genuine Opposition is still leading the counting based on COMELEC Audited Count.

LEGARDA, L. – 16,826,806
ESCUDERO, F. – 16,663,775
LACSON, P. – 14,106,629
VILLAR, M. – 14,000,871
PANGILINAN, F. – 13,340,796
AQUINO, B. – 13,114,292
ANGARA, E. – 11,307,589
ARROYO, J. – 10,750,186
CAYETANO, A. – 10,697,866
HONASAN, G. – 10,418,666
TRILLANES, A. – 10,012,668
PIMENTEL, A. – 9,862,695
ZUBIRI, J. – 9,763,360
RECTO, R. – 9,650,727
DEFENSOR, M. -  8,986,035
PICHAY, P. -  8,751,968

Please see the full list here

Site Search Tags: Comelec Official Count, Senatoriables, Magic 12

I would like to put my views regarding the post made by Janette Toral in Sunstar.com.ph regarding the 2007 election and Blogging and thanks to Rhodilee for the tip
” Duplicate information. A lot of the blogs had the same information “

I think this blog is one of them because most of the blog post that I made are based on the blogs, News, e-Groups of different people who had direct knowledge on what is going on their particular location. As a web researcher I need a site wherein I can get some …

In Butig Lanao Del Sur Voting finally pushed through in this troubled town in Lanao del Sur province — on the third attempt being the cops as the Election Officer.
The towns in Lanao del Sur where special elections were held over the weekend were

Kapai (5,659 )
Lumba Bayabao (9,004),
Masiu (10,966)
Bayang (9,056)
Binidayan (5,466)
Kapatagan (7,490)
Lumbatan (7,375)
Domalondong (3, 983)
Lumbayanague (5,733),
Madalum (7,137)
Marogong (7,590)
Pualas (6,185)
Butig (8,517)

With a total of 94,161 registered voter, Will this affect the senatoriables in the 11th and 12th position not to mention that this might give a 12-0 votes in favor …

This GMA News Exclusive catch my eyes when I read it. Is it really true that the votes in maguindanao has been altered the night before election to have a count of 12-0 in favor of team unity. www.gmanews.tv researchers had dig the following :
GMA News exclusive: A man presenting himself as one of three people who wrote down the names of Team Unity’s candidates in the ballots for a barangay (village) in Maguindanao swore Wednesday that allegations of fraud in the elections there are true.
Using the alias “Karim,” the …

It seem OFW had spoken their view regarding Philippine politics with 8 GO, 3 TU, 1 Independent.
Overseas voters’ verdict: 8 GO, 3 TU, 1 Independent
OAV results for Senatoriables as follows

Legarda ( GO ) – 59,151
Pangilinan ( Ind )- 58, 854,
Aquino III (GO)  48, 714
Villar Jr. ( GO) 48, 628
Recto (TU) – 47, 692;
Lacson (GO) – 42, 011;
Escudero (GO) – 41, 645;
Cayetano (GO) – 37, 924;
Angara (TU) – 37, 810;
Pimentel III (GO) – 37, 093;
Arroyo (TU) – 36, 615;
Roco (GO) …

(SOURCE: CONSULATE GENERAL reported by CESAR TORRES from OFW-News Yahoo Groups
UNOFFICAL RESULTS IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Registered Voters: 4,844; No of Votes: 1190; Counted: 1,161; Invalid: 29Territorial Coverage: No. California, Alaska, Utah, Colorado, Wyming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, No. Nevada, Idaho(COMPARISON: Los Angeles: 650 Registered Voters, 250 Voted; Honolulu: 150 Registered Voters, Less than 50 Voted)

SENATORIABLES

PANGILINAN  793
VILLAR  676
RECTO  670
ARROYO  663
LEVISTE-LEGARDA  655
AQUINO, NO-NO  647
ESCUDERO  538
DEFENSOR  528
ANGARA  513
LACSON  466
CAYETANO TISOY  453
ZUBIRI  420
MAGSAYSAY  417
PIMENTEL  412
ROCO  411
PICHAY  306
HONASAN  305
SOTTO  288
COSETENG  273
SINGZON  263
TRILLANES 255
ORETA 203
KIRAM  77
CAYETANO DAVAO 37

PARTY LIST WITH SIGNFICANT VOTES

BAYAN MUNA 47
CIBAC 47
SENIOR CITIZENS 40
GABRIELA …