May 13, 2019 election monitoring: What to report
I will be at Kontra Daya Election monitoring center. One can report incidents on vote-buying, harassment, illegal campaigning, malfunctioning Vote Counting Machine (VCM), and Voters’...
Social media and its impact on Philippine elections
Now that the Philippine election day is next week, would social media have an impact in informing, and mobilizing voters? Or convince them to vote...
Fighting back election-related disinformation by sharing the truth
This is my presentation for “Fighting election-related disinformation” for Kontra Daya’s People’s Assembly Against Election Fraud held today at St. Thomas Hall, Colegio de San...
State of Philippine Media, World Press Freedom Day
This is a summary report and data graphics on the state of Philippine media, with reports on attacks and threats recorded from June 30, 2016...
How we can help the Senatorial candidates in the Opposition
Published with permission from Dino Manrique of filipinocreative.com from “WHY THERE IS STILL HOPE FOR THE OPPOSITION AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP THEM”...
The only survey that matters is the one on May 13, 2019
In his book, The Opinion Makers, David Moore makes the startling conclusion that pollsters “do not measure public opinion, they manufacture it.” He anchors this...
Truth-telling in the age of disinformation
An inconvenient truth is that the May 13 elections may again be a manifestation of our people’s political literacy, as mentioned by former ombudsman Conchita...
What party-list group should I vote for in the May 13, 2019 elections? Download this guide.
Download Voter’s guide to the 2019 party-list elections What is the party-list system in the first place? The party-list system of election was intended by...
PCIJ, Rappler, Ellen Tordesillas, Inday Varona on The Manila Times’s “Oust-Duterte plot.”
Yes Here are the statements of media outlets and journalists who are allegedly involved in the “Association Matrix Between Bikoy and Ellen Tordesillas” PCIJ Statement on The...
I’m voting for the opposition, here’s why
In the past three elections, I never shared my list of Senate candidates because I wanted to stay neutral. Instead, I came out with a...
Boboto ako para panatilihing huling balwarte ng checks and balances ang Senado
(This is the Filipino version of “I am voting to keep the Senate as the last bastion of checks and balances”. For the English version,...
Generosity & patience made me reconsider the senatorial candidates to vote for this upcoming May 2019 elections
I came across Ding Velasco’s post from Inday Varona’s timeline.The post struck me because it was generosity and patience from my readers that made me...
How to vote in the May 13 elections
Do you know how to vote? You think marking a small circle is a simple enough task? Check your precinct, polling center, voter status https://www.gov.ph/web/precinctfinder...
I am voting to keep the Senate as the last bastion of checks and balances
We are now less than a month away from the May 13 Philippine elections. There is now a frenzy of last-minute campaigning everywhere as candidates...
Choose now
To vote is not just a right—it is a sacred obligation of every qualified citizen. Our history, as well as the histories of other democratic...