MANILA, Philippines — With almost a year to go before the 2022 national polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will implement some changes in the campaign and voting practices to ensure the safety of the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic. If single-day longer-hour elections push through, Jimenez said they may have to propose that teachers get deployed in two shifts. And the Comelec has always traditionally had the power to extend the voting hours,” Jimenez said. He also said campaign expenditure on social media would be difficult to regulate, as there is no law governing it. “The last election, if we did not expand the meaning of broadcast to social media, we would not be able to regulate social media in any way, but try to find a law that says social media is part of broadcast media and you will not find anything because it does not exist,” he said.

Source: Philippine Star May 08, 2021 15:56 UTC