{"id":75573,"date":"2016-05-08T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=75573"},"modified":"2016-05-08T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T13:33:34","slug":"voters-allowed-wear-shirts-colors-linked-poll-bets-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/05\/08\/voters-allowed-wear-shirts-colors-linked-poll-bets-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters allowed to wear shirts with colors linked to poll bets\u2014Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70873\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Untitled-design-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) clarified Sunday that voters are allowed to wear shirts with colors that are identified with candidates on Monday&#8217;s polls.<\/p>\n<p>According to Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez they will not stop people from wearing colors that represents certain candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of clothing, we are okay with any color&#8230; what if red suits you? We cannot stop that,\u201d the poll body official<\/p>\n<p>However, he discouraged the public from wearing shirts bearing the image, names, or logos of particular candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe graphics, texts, please, let us just avoid those so we won\u2019t encounter problems on Election Day,\u201d Jimenez added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the poll body urged voters to report if there are different groups that are still conducting campaign activities on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez noted that campaign ban is imposed from May 8-9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Report them to the police, and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) and they can be assisted in filing complaints,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez said that among the usual \u201clast-minute\u201d campaign activities of candidates include the distribution of sample ballots as well as the posting of campaign posters both happening just outside voting centers on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are all considered as campaign activities. It is already prohibited to put up posters, give out leaflets and conduct other campaign activities today (Sunday) and Election Day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Republic Act 7166 states that the campaign period shall exclude the day before the day of the election while Comelec Resolution No. 9981 provides that the campaign period ends on May 7.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">PPCRV is the accredited citizens&#8217; arm of the Comelec in the May 9 polls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Commission on Elections (Comelec) clarified Sunday that voters are allowed to wear shirts with colors that are identified with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3716,4019],"class_list":["post-75573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-comelec","tag-voters","mauthors-ferdinand-g-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75573","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=75573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}