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Comelec expects increase in vote buying, selling
The Philippine Star
|May 03, 2025
With just 10 days remaining before the midterm elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) expects the number of vote buying and abuse of state resources (ASR) activities by candidates to go up.
Comelec Commissioner Ernesto Maceda Jr. said they are looking at the number of reported vote buying and ASR to surge before May 12.
"We do anticipate that additional reports of vote buying and vote selling activities will still come in 10 days before election day," Maceda, chairman of the Comelec's Committee on Kontra Bigay (CKB), said in an interview on the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon program yesterday.
He encouraged the public to continue reporting cases of vote buying and ASR in their respective areas.
Maceda said the public may report via email at committee.kontrabigay@comelec.gov.ph or on the Comelec Facebook page.
This story is from the May 03, 2025 edition of The Philippine Star.
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