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#Halalan2016 #Eleksyon2016 No stat significant move: Dut 33% Mar 22% Grace 21% Binay 17%

As they were. Status quo: All presidential bets held on to their ratings from last week as there is no statistically significant movement in the numbers compared to last week’s survey by Pulse Asia, with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5%, as follows: Pulse Asia presidential survey Apr. 26-29, 4,000 respondents, margin of error of plus or minus 1.5% (source of figures: ABS-CBN News)  …

Dedicated to the millennials (Altho there is no millennial vote, no women’s vote, no men’s vote, etc. in the Philippines)

Based on Comelec data as of January 2016: Almost half of the 54.36 million registered voters in the country are below 35 years old, or the so-called millennials.        That is, 24.73 million voters of the 54.36 million registered voters are aged 17 to 34 years old.       Here is the breakdown: 3,043,411 voters are 17 to 19 years old 7,983,167 voters are 20-24 years old 7,370,037 voters are 25 to…

#Halalan2016 #PiliPinas @WordPressdotcom #Challenge Obstacles @COMELEC precinct-finder still down @jabjimenez

WordPress Discovery Challenge: Obstacles     The Comelec website  ( comelec.gov.ph ) is still down. And with it, the Precinct Finder is also down.      More than 7 million voters in the presidential elections that will be held  eleven days from now are first-time voters. They’ve never voted.   They turned 18 years old in the period June, 2013 to October, 2015 and registered in that period for the…

#PiliPinasDebates2016 Next-day post-debate “polls” on who “won” the debate are not scientific #juanvote

     As expected, PR agencies of the candidates flood the news pages a day or two after the debate with press releases on who “won” the debate. More insidious however are “polls” hosted by news organizations that purport to measure who “won” the debate by soliciting votes from their viewers or readers. This is called an open-access poll or a crowd-sourced poll. It is not scientific, and everybody…

The noisier citizens participate in a debate #PiliPinasDebates2016 the better for expanding electoral democratic space

     The noisier the citizenry participate in a debate, the better for expanding electoral democratic space.         The more people post strong opinions on an on-going debate, the better for increasing electoral participation.          The fierier the exchange of words during a debate is, the better for resolving electoral indecision.        Hopefully, light follows fire and heat.        We want…

#PiliPinasDebates2016 : The candidates all showed up, yey! #juanvote

     For the first time in post-martial law history, all the presidential candidates showed up in a nationally televised debate! Yey!! woot-woot, whoo-hoo, awweesome, ♥  ♥  ♥ !        Despite criticisms on the format, time limit, number of advertisements, exclusion of online news portals, the Comelec pulled off a first: That is, make all presidential bets show up.         For this, the Comelec…