Namfrel gets ‘partial’ Comelec accreditation for May pollsBy The Manila TimesTHE Commission on Elections (Comelec) “partially” accredited watchdog National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) as its citizen arm in the polls in May. “If we don’t get the accreditation for the Open Election Data project, we have to outsource data from other organizations. That would be difficult for us,” said Namfrel National Chairman Augusto Lagman, a former Comelec commissioner. The Open Election Data is a website on candidates’ profiles, tabulation of election returns, list of voters, transparency and media servers, among other information. “We have no clue why the accreditation [for the Open Election Data project] was delayed,” Averia said, citing Comelec’s Minute Resolution dated March 29.

Source: Manila Times April 25, 2019 08:37 UTC