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                    [Title] => To Comelec – Give us back our democracy!
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I just don’t get why the Commission on Elections (Comelec) voted unanimously to award Smartmatic Total Information Management (TIM) a contract to lease 93,977 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) despite all the negatives that we and so many critics, especially those coming from apolitical groups from the information technology sector who believe that the last two national elections, the 2010 Presidential elections and the 2013 mid-term election were wrought with electronic fraud.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-19 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1404340 [Title] => PCOS and the Filipino's right to vote [Summary] =>

Last Wednesday we asked the Cebu Citizens Involvement and Maturation in People's Empowerment and Liberation  what they have to say about continued use of the PCOS machines, but apparently no one inside C-Cimpel reads our columns or if anyone had read that column, he probably decided not to reply to me lest we uncover the group's true intentions, and as we had said, it has become the deodorant of the Commission on Elections.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1402117 [Title] => Get rid of personality politics and PCOS [Summary] =>

Last Thursday a very important news story came out in the inside pages of the Philippine STAR, which blared, “SC voting on Erap case set next month.” Few people realize what this report could mean…

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1383371 [Title] => The greatest challenge to the Supreme Court [Summary] =>

First off, I got this email from Mr. Dante Jimenez, founding chairman and president of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) in response to the article we wrote last Saturday about their joining in the fight vs. the rape of Philippine democracy. Here’s his letter in full.

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The die has been cast against the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) when a petition signed by election lawyers, Atty. Glenn Chiong, Prof. Nelson Celis of Automated Election System (AES) Watch Organization, Melchor Magdamo and Rev. Wendell Unlayao asked the Supreme Court (SC) to declare the 2013 Senatorial Elections “null and void” because of strong evidence of “electronic dagdag-bawas.”

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Vice Pres. Jejomar Binay visited GenSan and met with Sarangani Rep. Manny "Pacman" Paquiao.

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Before I forget, allow me to remind our fellow Catholics that October is the month dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. As the Blessed Virgin Mary revealed to St. Dominic, “Preach my Rosary and there will be much fruit.”

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1375991 [Title] => NTC: Exposing the sins of Pres. Aquino! [Summary] =>

The National Transformation Council  which was held at the Mariner's Court in ALU Compound last Wednesday afternoon, was a huge success.

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