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some guide topics/
questions when engaging
the different stakeholders
Some questions for contestants, supporters
and parties
Are you free to inform voters about your candidacy? Are you free to
campaign throughout the jurisdiction?
Are you able to freely report cases concerning security to the police? Have
you filed any report of this kind to the police? What actions did they take?
How do you perceive the poll preparations to be coming along? Does the
Comelec provide sufficient and clear knowledge on campaigning, polling,
counting? What about information on the safeguards in these procedures?
Do you think voters are receiving sufficient and clear information on the
elections?
How clear are the complaints handing and adjudication processes to you?
How much confidence do you have in them?
Do you think the media is fair and unbiased? How heavily are you or the
other contestants using new media?
Do you and your supporters (and other contestants) believe that voting
secret?
How competitive is the election for the post that you are competing for?
What key barriers are there for one, like you, to be elected? What would be
the key costs in becoming a candidate and in getting elected?
Some questions for representatives of
organizations serving as voter proxies
Do you think voters are receiving sufficient and clear information on the
contestants? Are the pieces of information accurate and relevant?
How do voters discern which pieces of information are irrelevant? Are
they able to distinguish from biased and unbiased information?
Do voters know if their names are on the voters list prior to voting? Do
voters know where their polling stations are? How accessible do you
think are the polling places to them?
Are specialized needs of voters (like those with disabilities and from
indigenous groups) addressed by the Comelec and other entities (like
the media, etc.)?
Do you think the media is fair and unbiased? How are contestants
reaching out to you as voters?
How competitive are the elections? What key barriers are there for
anyone to be elected?
Some questions for the police and/or army
(state security)
How do you perceive the security environment around the elections for
candidate, for voters, for polling officials like yourselves, and for the police?
How are you conveying how your election preparations are along to voters
and contestants? What specific issues are you addressing with contestants
and voters on the campaigning, balloting and counting processes? What
issues are there from any of them, if any, on safeguards in these
procedures?
What procedures are in place for voters to know if their names are in the list?
What should voters to before election day to check where they will be
voting? What criteria are being used to determine the location of the polling
stations?
What procedures are being taken to ensure that voters with special needs
are addressed?
Do you and your supporters (and other contestants) believe that voting
secret?
How competitive do you think are the local elections?What key barriers are
there for one, like you, to be elected? What would be the key costs in
becoming a candidate and in getting elected?
Some questions for the DepEd and the DOJ
(Comelec deputies)
For the DepEd as polling station officials
What procedures are being taken to ensure that voters with special needs
are addressed?
What specific issues possibly coming from voters are you addressing on
the balloting and counting processes?
How do you perceive the security environment around the elections for
candidate, for voters, for the police, and polling/canvassing officials like
yourselves?
How competitive do you think are the local elections?What key barriers
are there for one to be elected? What do you think are key costs in
becoming a candidate and in getting elected?
Some for the media
Are you able to access or gather information on the elections
freely? If there are any restrictions, what would they be?
Are you free to report any and all matters pertaining to the
elections?
Preps 10 min / Interviews 20 min per, 60 total / Triad sharing, 5 min per,
15 total / Encoding: 10 min / Plenary sharing 60 min
BKH volunteer and
provincial team member
sign-up
1. First, sign-up as a BKH volunteer at:
http://bit.ly/200scnX
(two zeroes)
http://bit.ly/1KVVkQU
REVIEW of our objectives
- preparing to interview
- note taking
- identifying key points; using
the results checklist
- reporting online
- setting the interviews