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GMA Network
19-05-2025
- Politics
- GMA Network
#Eleksyon2025 poll workers in Lapu-Lapu City claim honorarium
Teachers who served during #Eleksyon2025 in Lapu-Lapu City arrived at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) office to fill out Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Form 2307, a requisite to claim their honorarium. Teachers who constituted the Electoral Board in Barangays Pangan-an, Caohagan, Caubian, Tungasan, Tingo, Talima, Caw-oy, Baring, San Vicente, Santa Rosa, Sabang, Pusok, Subabasbas, Pajo, and Punta Engaño, received their honorarium at about 1 p.m. on Monday, May 19, 2025. Teachers in other barangays in mainland Lapu-Lapu City are set to receive their honorarium on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, while support staff members are to get their honorarium on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, and Thursday, May 22, 2025. On Friday, May 23, 2025, other support staff members and technicians will get their honorarium. According to Atty. Ann Janette Lamban, election officer of COMELEC Lapu-Lapu City, there is a total of 906 Electoral Boards, 836 support staff members, 117 Priority Polling Place (PPP) support staff members, and 12 support staff members for Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL). The Electoral Board chairperson is set to receive P12,000; P11,000 for poll clerks and the third member; and P8,000 for each Electoral Board support staff member. However, a 15-percent tax will be deducted from the said amounts. Further, Atty. George Erwin Garcia, COMELEC chairman, has announced that poll workers will get an additional P1,000.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hampton City Council looks at adding new voter precinct for university students
HAMPTON — The City Council is interested in adding a voting precinct near Hampton University to address student voter accessibility after students waited in three-hour lines to vote during last year's presidential election. The City Council discussed pursuing an additional precinct at a meeting last week. At that meeting, the council shot down proposals from the city's Electoral Board to move East Hampton's polling location from Phoebus High school, which currently sits about 300 feet outside the precinct, to a more central location. The council also rejected proposals to close four precincts and redraw seven others. Phoebus High School is where Hampton University students voted in November's presidential election. Despite having additional staff on site on Election Day, the precinct was overwhelmed with long lines and many students completing same-day voter registration waited nearly three hours to fill out paperwork. Same-day voter registration took effect in Virginia in 2022. Nearly 600 Hampton University students utilized it during last year's general election, according to Hampton Electoral Board Chair Rebecca Winn. While it's great to see such high turnout for students, Winn said it's the city's responsibility to improve voting accessibility for them. 'They're kids, they're like 18 or 20. They're not registering however long it is in advance,' Winn said. 'They don't have the rules on the front end, so oftentimes, college students are left out of the voting process.' Creating a 31st precinct in Hampton is not a simple change. State law requires each precinct have a polling place within a mile of the precinct or inside it with between 500 and 5,000 registered voters. Hampton City Attorney Courtney Sydnor said in an emailed statement the city will work with the city Office of Elections to make the new precinct and the City Council will review and adjust the proposal. There will then be a public hearing process and 60-day attorney general review before any changes are made. Sydnor said during last week's meeting it is unlikely for any potential changes to be implemented before this year's June primaries. Hampton University did not respond to requests for comment this week about the proposal. Voting accessibility concerns for Hampton University students extend beyond same-day-registration, according to Winn, and include issues with receiving mail-in ballots for out-of-state students. Phoebus High School is also a nearly 40-minute walk from Hampton University. The university arranged for buses to transport students to the polling location. But Winn said scheduling conflicts with buses required many students to walk or Uber to their polling place and many students worried about long lines interfering with their attendance for classes, practices or work. The university did excuse absences for voters at the Electoral Board's request, Winn said. Winn said the barriers are enough to discourage students from participating in the process again, and should be addressed by creating accessibility that matches that of other universities throughout the state. A 1979 U.S. Supreme Court decision protects college and university students against voter disenfranchisement. Many universities in Virginia, including Old Dominion University, William & Mary and the University of Virginia have polling locations on the edges of their campuses. 'With regard to colleges and the needs of colleges and universities where there are dorms and on-campus living options, it would be treating Hampton University more equally to the way others are being treated,' Winn said. NAACP Hampton Branch Chair Gaylene Kanoyton said students have grown more politically engaged since they first advocated for a Hampton University precinct in 2012, and have continued to show up despite experiencing disenfranchisement. 'Students have been advocating to have a polling precinct on their campus for a while. This is nothing new,' Kanoyton said. 'They have the voting numbers to have a precinct. The numbers are there. We want to always expand the access to vote, it's essential for a healthy democracy.' Devlin Epding, 757-510-4037,
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nate Fields back on ballot as Thornton Township supervisor candidate, judge rules
A Cook County judge ruled Monday Independent supervisor candidate Nate Fields will be on the Thornton Township ballot, reversing a decision made by the township Electoral Board. The board, made up of township Trustees Chris Gonzalez and Darlene Gray Everett as well as Clerk Loretta Wells, voted last month to remove Fields and two other supervisor candidates from the April 1 ballot. Michael Smith and Keith Price, who is food assistance program manager in Supervisor Tiffany Henyard's township administration, brought five challenges against Fields, only one of which stuck. The board voted 2-1 to remove Fields on the basis that he failed to bind his statement of candidacy with his nomination petitions. At the time, Fields expressed frustrations that a filing error could prevent voters from choosing the candidates. 'It's just another obstacle I have to overcome,' Fields said, adding objectors Price and Smith were 'doing their best to kick out any competitors … instead of thinking about who the residents want.' Fields appealed the decision, leading to Judge John Tully's ruling. Tully wrote the Illinois Election Code does not explicitly require statements of candidacy and nomination petitions be bound together, and therefore Fields should not be disqualified from seeking office. The Election Code states that petition sheets 'be neatly fastened together in book form by placing the sheets in a pile and fastening them together at one edge in a secure and suitable manner,' Tully wrote. Fields filed all the necessary documents as a candidate simultaneously, Tully said, so he is an eligible candidate. 'In sustaining the objection in this regard, the Board created one without any valid legal support,' Tully said in his decision. 'Its decision was clear error.' Fields was among the first candidates to file to run for Thornton Township supervisor, and will face Democratic nominee and state Sen. Napoleon Harris, Republican nominee Richard Nolan and Reform Thornton Township Party candidate and Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark. Supervisor Tiffany Henyard also sought a spot on the ballot, but lost the Democratic nomination to Harris during a caucus held last month. Henyard challenged the caucus result in Cook County circuit court, but her objection was thrown out for being filed incorrectly. Fields said before officially filing for office that he worked for the township under former Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli until his position was dissolved under Henyard. He said he wants to lead with transparency and involve the community more in township decision making. 'I'm hoping the community that is outraged about how Tiffany is acting is going to get up now and say, 'OK, choose him now,' because I need to get up and make a difference now,' Fields said. ostevens@
Chicago Tribune
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Chicago Tribune
Nate Fields back on ballot as Thornton Township supervisor candidate, judge rules
A Cook County judge ruled Monday Independent supervisor candidate Nate Fields will be on the Thornton Township ballot, reversing a decision made by the township Electoral Board. The board, made up of township Trustees Chris Gonzalez and Darlene Gray Everett as well as Clerk Loretta Wells, voted last month to remove Fields and two other supervisor candidates from the April 1 ballot. Michael Smith and Keith Price, who is food assistance program manager in Supervisor Tiffany Henyard's township administration, brought five challenges against Fields, only one of which stuck. The board voted 2-1 to remove Fields on the basis that he failed to bind his statement of candidacy with his nomination petitions. At the time, Fields expressed frustrations that a filing error could prevent voters from choosing the candidates. 'It's just another obstacle I have to overcome,' Fields said, adding objectors Price and Smith were 'doing their best to kick out any competitors … instead of thinking about who the residents want.' Fields appealed the decision, leading to Judge John Tully's ruling. Tully wrote the Illinois Election Code does not explicitly require statements of candidacy and nomination petitions be bound together, and therefore Fields should not be disqualified from seeking office. The Election Code states that petition sheets 'be neatly fastened together in book form by placing the sheets in a pile and fastening them together at one edge in a secure and suitable manner,' Tully wrote. Fields filed all the necessary documents as a candidate simultaneously, Tully said, so he is an eligible candidate. 'In sustaining the objection in this regard, the Board created one without any valid legal support,' Tully said in his decision. 'Its decision was clear error.' Fields was among the first candidates to file to run for Thornton Township supervisor, and will face Democratic nominee and state Sen. Napoleon Harris, Republican nominee Richard Nolan and Reform Thornton Township Party candidate and Harvey Mayor Christopher Clark. Supervisor Tiffany Henyard also sought a spot on the ballot, but lost the Democratic nomination to Harris during a caucus held last month. Henyard challenged the caucus result in Cook County circuit court, but her objection was thrown out for being filed incorrectly. Fields said before officially filing for office that he worked for the township under former Supervisor Frank Zuccarelli until his position was dissolved under Henyard. He said he wants to lead with transparency and involve the community more in township decision making. 'I'm hoping the community that is outraged about how Tiffany is acting is going to get up now and say, 'OK, choose him now,' because I need to get up and make a difference now,' Fields said.
