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...polling stations around the Philippines. Sporadically at first, then with increasing blatancy, the long-awaited exercise was marred by unsettling levels of violence, fraud, vote buying and ballot theft. More than a day after the polls closed, the official vote count by the Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had slowed to a crawl. Communications linking that effort to a parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many parts of the country, private citizens spent the night after the vote protecting ballot boxes with their...
...countdown to disaster had already begun. On Monday, Salvador ("Doy") Laurel, 57, marched into the office of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and filed as a candidate in the Feb. 7 presidential election. On Wednesday, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 52, did the same thing. With the ink on Aquino's registration papers barely dry and with only hours remaining before the midnight filing deadline, there was only the dimmest hope that the two opposition leaders would patch up their differences and revive plans that had collapsed three days earlier to run on a single ticket. The possibility loomed that...
...country. Later Aquino and Laurel met at the house of Maur Lichauco, the sister of Aquino's husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino. In just 20 minutes, the two candidates agreed to revive their deal for a unified slate. At 10:30 p.m., Aquino and Laurel returned to COMELEC and re-registered. By agreement--and to Aquino's obvious delight--the new papers listed her as the presidential candidate and Laurel as her running mate. For Laurel, there was the satisfaction that the ticket would be fielded under the banner of the party he had spent years building...
Beyond the strategic disadvantages, both opposition candidates face the prospect of dishonest elections. It is hardly a secret that Marcos has tight control of the electoral apparatus. The Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) supervises the polls. Moreover, each step of the vote- tabulating process, from the precincts to urban and provincial centers, and finally to the National Assembly, is dominated by government employees and K.B.L. members...
...President has announced that foreign officials will be permitted to monitor the balloting. The opposition is also pressing for accreditation of the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections, a watchdog group created to help police the 1984 parliamentary elections, in which opposition candidates won a record 59 seats. COMELEC has not yet approved the opposition outfit's application to watch the polls...