Electrons, Pixels, and Pesos – A look at online campaign finance
The grass is greener on the other side of the digital divide, but not much attention has been given on the costs of online advertising, especially such campaigns for the benefit of political candidates. Taking off from the theme of previous posts Politics in the Age of AdSense — A View of the...
Source: Filipino Voices
Campaign Ads and Election Spending: Getting a Layman’s Sense of the Spending
With virtually no limits on advertising — except for election spending — the PR people of candidates have pretty much free rein in the type of marketing that they can use to present their candidate in the best possible light. The law is clear on the limits, and the penalties for violating...
Source: Filipino Voices
Fight for the Right to Live Free and Ride: The Jester-in-Exile Assails MMDA Resolution No. 07-07
First things first — let me turn into the Ghost Rider, but in this instance, I’ll be donning a toga instead of my leathers, but no less am I a biker.
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Honorable justices of the Supreme Court.
I am a biker, a taxpayer, and a citizen of the Republic of the Philippines. I stand before you to petition the Court to declare MMDA Resolution No. 07-07 unconstitutional, and pray the court to prevent the infringement on my rights by the implementation of this resolution.
Article III, Section 1, of the Constitution says in unequivocal terms that “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.” Read more
e-Lections 2: The Power of Text
In a previous post, I had discussed on how to take Philippine elections into cyberspace as a tool to prevent fraud. Of course, the discussion was not exactly as detailed as I would have liked — blame it on weekend “katam” (that’s “sloth” to you non-Noypi speakers) — so perhaps later the post could be amplified. Kudos, by the way, to visitor Arbet who pointed out some useful details on the identity validation and ballot mechanisms.
In this post, I’ll be talking about a brainwave a friend had… and what a revolutionary idea it is. Given that the e-Lection infrastructure is set-up (with particular emphasis on identity validation), there’s one more method of execising the right to suffrage that can and will empower the citizenry:
e-Lections via cellphone.
