Editorial 3/9/16 (Philippines, elections, Grace Poe, vote buying, women's rights, solar energy, North Korea, sanction)
Philippine Star "Preventing vote buying" Reversing the Commission on Elections again, the Supreme Court yesterday granted a petition to issue receipts for the automated voting. The unanimous SC vote ordered the Comelec to enable the voter verified paper audit trail or VVPAT feature of the vote counting machines. The decision has raised concern that vote-buying politicians will again have a way of verifying if they are getting what they paid for through receipts. [full text] Sun.Star Cebu "Game-changer?" WHAT an eventful International Women’s Day it turned out to be for Sen. Grace Poe. Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court En Banc reversed yesterday a decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and allowed her to run for the presidency. For voters, the decision offers the chance of greater clarity. With Poe firmly in the saddle, and with much of the speculative melodrama from her disqualification cases now set aside, voters can more clinically assess her...