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    LENTE is a nationwide non-partisan election monitoring organization composed of volunteers from the legal community. Its vision is a genuine and participatory Philippine democracy with an informed and engaged citizenry. It aims to be a guardian of a credible and accessible electoral system. In the 2007 and 2008 elections, LENTE deployed thousands of volunteers nationwide and monitored contested areas. It offers voter education workshops and monitors for election offenses.

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    LENTE is a nationwide non-partisan election monitoring organization composed of volunteers from the legal community. Its vision is a genuine and participatory Philippine democracy with an informed and engaged citizenry. It aims to be a guardian of a credible and accessible electoral system. In the 2007 and 2008 elections, LENTE deployed thousands of volunteers nationwide and monitored contested areas. It offers voter education workshops and monitors for election offenses.

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    About Us

    LENTE’s Vision

    Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) is a nationwide non-partisan election watchdog
    composed of volunteers from the legal community: lawyers, law students and paralegals. LENTE
    volunteers are trained to engage in monitoring the legal aspects of the elections, pursuant to a firm
    commitment to the principle that an effective democracy begins with elections that reflect the genuine
    will of the people.

    The heart of the Constitution is social justice, and social justice is the diffusion of wealth and
    political power for the common good. Elections diffuse political power. It is the fundamental building
    block of any democracy, which is why its proper conduct should be guarded.

    LENTE envisions a genuine and participatory Philippine democracy with informed, empowered
    and engaged citizenry. LENTE is a steadfast guardian of a credible and accessible electoral system.

    Institutional Members

    On March 23, 2007, LENTE was launched at the national office of the Integrated Bar of the
    Philippines (IBP) with a signing of a Memorandum of Agreement among the members of the network.
    The institutional members of LENTE include the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID),
    Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), National Movement for Free Elections
    (NAMFREL), One Voice, Libertás, Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Caucus of Development NGO
    Networks (CODE-NGO) Bantay Canvass and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-National
    Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-NASSA). The Workers’ Electoral Watch (We-Watch) and the
    Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) joined LENTE on February 16, 2010.

    LENTE in the May 2007 Elections

    Six thousand (6,000) LENTE volunteers were deployed in the May 2007 elections in partnership
    with its institutional members. They provided legal services and monitored the canvassing of tallied
    votes in the city, municipality, and provincial levels all over the country.

    LENTE was also actively involved in the intensive efforts to closely monitor hotly-contested
    elections in areas such as Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.

    LENTE in the August 2008 Elections

    On August 9, 2008, two days before the scheduled elections in the Autonomous Region of
    Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) issued a resolution accrediting
    LENTE as a citizens’ arm. LENTE was able to deploy one hundred and thirty-one (131) volunteers in six
    provinces, namely, Maguindanao, Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.
    LENTE News
    February 6, 2010. – LENTE starts voter’s education and training of Mangyan voters, the
    indigenous community in the island of Mindoro. Notable in the Mangyans’ election experience are
    instances when they are gathered and detained (hakot) until election day to ensure their votes for a
    particular candidate, and the undue advantage of the literate writers assigned to them on election
    day who would, at times, enter a vote different from the Mangyan’s actual choice.

    February 12, 2010. – “People don’t cheat when there's someone watching ", says
    recount czar Atty. John Hardin Young, who visited the LENTE headquarters in Makati to share his
    experience in the controversial recount that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Bush v. Gore
    ruling. Atty. Young told LENTE volunteers to watch out for deactivated voters and ballot recounts as
    the Philippines gradually transitions to an automated election system.

    February 13, 2010. – DZRH 666 Teleradyo show Batas Barangay teams up with LENTE
    every Saturday night at 6.30 to tackle voters’ empowerment in terms of evidence gathering,
    documentation and affidavit-drafting in order to hold electoral offenders accountable. The program
    also tackles various voters’ concerns.

    LENTE Case Docket


    May 21, 2007. – LENTE was instrumental in initiating due process and protecting a witness
    who testified that poll watchers in Maguindanao were forced to fill up blank ballots for particular
    candidates. Instead of giving credence to the witness’ bold statement, the then COMELEC Chairman
    required that other evidence of fraud be shown. A poll supervisor who was caught after charges
    were filed against him for allowing the certificates of canvass (CoCs), or vote tallies, in his custody
    to be stolen, walked scot free and has since gone into hiding.

    September 2009. – LENTE drafted a petition to exclude the former residents of the
    Philippine National Railways. The case was duly assigned to an institutional member for filing and
    prosecution.

    February 2010. – LENTE is all set to monitor possible disenfranchisement of voters,


    possible cases of massive fraud and prosecution of those accountable for electoral offenses. LENTE
    is training voters on the ways of documenting evidence, executing affidavits and coordination with
    lawyers, all of which are vital in setting the due process machinery in motion.

    What We Offer
    Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) conducts three kinds of election seminar
    workshops on 1) voters’ education and basics of automated elections in comparison with manual
    elections; 2) poll-watching and basic election laws and processes; and 3) accountability for election
    offenses, elements of each offense, evidence-gathering and affidavit-drafting.
    LENTE Institutional Members for
    the May 2010 Elections
    Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines –
    National Secretariat for Social Action

    Integrated Bar of the Philippines

    Libertas

    National Movement for Free Elections

    National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

    One Voice

    Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID)

    Puwersa para sa Ganap na Demokrasya, Labang


    Wagas para sa Inang Bayan (PUGADLAWIN)

    Upholding Life and Nature (ULAN)

    Workers Electoral Watch (WE-WATCH)


    LENTE Chapters (As of April 26, 2010)

    Andres Bonifacio College


    Aquinas University of Legaspi
    Ateneo de Davao University
    Ateneo de Manila University
    Bukidnon State University
    Cagayan Colleges of Tuguegarao
    College of Maasin
    CorJesu
    Don Vicente Orestes Romualdez Educational Foundation
    Eastern Samar State University
    ESSU-Samar
    Marawi State University
    Marawi State University- General Santos City
    Medina Colleges
    Mindanao State University-Iligan
    NorthEastern College
    Notre Dame College of Jolo
    Notre Dame University
    Notre Dame University-Cotabato
    Pagadian Capitol College
    Philippine Advent College
    San Beda School of Law
    San Pablo Colleges
    Sultan Kudarat University Foundation
    University of Cebu
    University of Cordilleras
    University of Eastern Philippines
    University of Mindanao
    University Of Northern Philippines
    University of Nueva Caceres
    University of Sto.Tomas
    University of the Philippines
    Urios State University
    Western Mindanao State University
    Xavier University
    Xavier University- Cagayan de Oro City

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