A LECTURE ON ELECTION LAWS AND GUIDELINES “The effort of the government alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.” These were the eternal words of the former U.S. President John F. Kennedy in his address at a White House Reception for the members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics on March 13, 1961. The Philippines is a democratic-republic country with a presidential form of government, wherein power is equally divided among its three (3) branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary, which also means that the members of the legislative branch and the President and the Vice President of the executive branch are elected by the electorate—the Filipino people in a procedure referred to as voting and the exercise of which is called suffrage. Common and relevant as the concept of suffrage…
