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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Voting in Maguindanao
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Even without a horrific massacre and the indictment of nearly all of the local officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, elections in the ARMM have been controversial.

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The Ampatuans have been suspended from their government posts – there are about a dozen of them, minus their distant relatives the Mangudadatus – and their most notorious member is now behind bars, protesting that he does not deserve the title of Butcher of Maguindanao.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250447 [Title] => Comelec denies slow count, vows to finish job in 9 days [Summary] => Better slow but sure than hasty but inaccurate.

Despite what may seem to be an interminably slow canvass of votes, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it may be able to complete its task of canvassing all votes in eight to nine days.

Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said the poll body could accomplish the tedious task of counting every ballot in unprecedented time if they sacrifice accuracy for speed.

"We want to be much (more sure), more accurate, rather than sacrifice accuracy" for speed, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250346 [Title] => Borra: Zero vote statistically possible [Summary] => It is not statistically impossible for a candidate to get zero votes in any area, even for someone as popular as Fernando Poe Jr. himself, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said that based on a Supreme Court ruling, what is statistically impossible is having more voters in a certain place than the actual number of registered voters.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Voting in Maguindanao
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Even without a horrific massacre and the indictment of nearly all of the local officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, elections in the ARMM have been controversial.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3161/startoonthumbd.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 527806 [Title] => The price of zero [Summary] =>

The Ampatuans have been suspended from their government posts – there are about a dozen of them, minus their distant relatives the Mangudadatus – and their most notorious member is now behind bars, protesting that he does not deserve the title of Butcher of Maguindanao.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250447 [Title] => Comelec denies slow count, vows to finish job in 9 days [Summary] => Better slow but sure than hasty but inaccurate.

Despite what may seem to be an interminably slow canvass of votes, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it may be able to complete its task of canvassing all votes in eight to nine days.

Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said the poll body could accomplish the tedious task of counting every ballot in unprecedented time if they sacrifice accuracy for speed.

"We want to be much (more sure), more accurate, rather than sacrifice accuracy" for speed, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250346 [Title] => Borra: Zero vote statistically possible [Summary] => It is not statistically impossible for a candidate to get zero votes in any area, even for someone as popular as Fernando Poe Jr. himself, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.

Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said that based on a Supreme Court ruling, what is statistically impossible is having more voters in a certain place than the actual number of registered voters.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413632 [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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