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Electrons, Pixels, and Pesos: A look at online campaign finance

Electrons, Pixels, and Pesos: A look at online campaign finance

The grass is greener on the other side of the digital divide, but not much attention has been given on the costs of online advertising, especially such campaigns for the benefit of political candidates. Taking off from the theme of previous posts Politics in the Age of AdSense -- A View of the Political Campaign Landscape Online and Campaign Ads and Election Spending: Getting a Layman's Sense of the Spending, let's try to make a layman's overview of the the election spending being made related to cyberspace.

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Campaign Ads and Election Spending: Getting a Layman's Sense of the Spending

Campaign Ads and Election Spending: Getting a Layman's Sense of the Spending

With virtually no limits on advertising -- except for election spending -- the PR people of candidates have pretty much free rein in the type of marketing that they can use to present their candidate in the best possible light. The law is clear on the limits, and the penalties for violating the law ...

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Recording and reportorial requirements (Part 3)

Recording and reportorial requirements  (Part 3)

Mikey Arroyo blew the whistle on himself when he declared on national television that campaign contributions and wedding gifts were partly the reason his declared net worth ballooned from P5.7 million in 2001 to P74.4 million in 2004 and then to P99.2 million last year. Mikey wed Angela Arroyo Montene...

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What are the Lawful Expenses of a Candidate? (Part 2)

What are the Lawful Expenses of a Candidate? (Part 2)

Blogwatch.ph stress the importance of campaign finance because candidates need to be transparent in Election Campaign sourcing and the true extent of their elections spending as this would impact directly on the candidates’ governance upon assumption to office. The first series laid out  sources of ca...

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Do you know where candidates get their campaign funds? (Part 1)

Do you know where  candidates get their campaign funds? (Part 1)

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's (PGMA) congressional bid received a lot of angry reactions from social media platforms ranging from garapal to Kapampangans, the nation and the world watching you! Reject GMA!

The news is disturbing to most Filipinos but  let us not neglect  equally critical election i...

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Know your candidate's campaign spending

Know your candidate's campaign spending

( Download the ebook on Basic Guide to the Laws and Rules Governing Election Finance in the Philippines )

You’ve seen the infomercials before.

Senator Manny Villar gives you a tour of his old  home in Tondo and helping out our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW). Just last October, TV ads started coming out wit...

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How to Vote in An Automated Election

Voters might be intimidated by the fancy technology used for the 2010 Presidential elections. Hopefully, this quick guide on the automated elections will make the procedure less confusing. read more...

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