{"id":72129,"date":"2016-03-11T01:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=72129"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:36:16","slug":"successful-conclusion-of-may-9-polls-is-comelecs-responsibility-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/11\/successful-conclusion-of-may-9-polls-is-comelecs-responsibility-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful conclusion of May 9 polls is COMELEC&#8217;s responsibility\u2014Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70783\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70783\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte. (Photo from the official Facebook page of Duterte)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12715872_10156537621055425_7761771888295341784_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte.<br \/>(Photo from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rodyduterte\" target=\"_blank\"> official Facebook page of Duterte<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014It is the responsibility of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure the successful conclusion of the May 9 elections.<\/p>\n<p>This was stressed by PDP-LABAN standard bearer Rodrigo Duterte amid reports that the polls could be postponed due to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to activate the vote verification feature of the counting machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is the problem of the Comelec because those are safety measures guaranteed for transparency,\u201d Duterte said shortly before his visit to Monsignor Flint Capiral at the San Diego de Alcala Parish Church, Valenzuela City Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNgayon hindi nila ginawa (Since they did not implement it), that is their problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In an En Banc resolution last March 8, the Supreme Court granted the petition of senatorial candidate Richard Gordon to compel the Comelec to implement the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail security feature which was included in the amendments to the Omnibus Election Code.<\/p>\n<p>Under the security feature, voters will be given receipts to assure them that their votes have been received and will be counted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose security measures were put in place to avoid doubts on the the result of the election,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the things that are put in place by law. Why didn\u2019t they implement it? There\u2019s a problem now. I don\u2019t know how the Comelec will resolve that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014It is the responsibility of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure the successful conclusion of the May 9 elections. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3716,6054,552,9783,35],"class_list":["post-72129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-comelec","tag-duterte","tag-elections","tag-may-9","tag-original","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-t-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}