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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is a non-profit organization that serves as a watchdog in Philippine elections. Despite being affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, it considers itself an independent, non-partisan, and non-sectarian organization. Its headquarters are located at the Pope Pius XII Center, United Nations Avenue, Ermita, Manila, Philippines. ==History== The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines, held in February 1991, called for reforms in the conduct of elections in the Philippines. In May 1991, H.E. Jaime Cardinal Sin, Commission on Elections (Philippines) Comelec Commissioner Haydee Yorac, then-Laity President Henrietta T. de Villa, Bishop Gabriel Reyes, Msgr. Bayani Valenzuela, and thirty Parish Lay Leaders conceived of the idea of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) in Villa San Miguel in Mandaluyong City. In October 1991, the PPCRV was launched at St. Paul University, Quezon City, with around one thousand laypeople from the parishes of the Archdiocese of Manila. The next month, with the support of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, the PPCRV expanded its operations nationwide.〔(Our History ). Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting. Retrieved 21 May 2013〕 The first test of PPCRV's poll-watching activities came in the 1992 presidential elections. In its first electoral exercise, 346,688 PPCRV volunteers participated in poll-watching, voters’ assistance, assisting the Board of Election Inspectors, protecting election returns, monitoring electoral exercise, and watching the canvassing of votes. PPCRV's primary function is to ensure the conduct of clean, honest, accurate, meaningful, and peaceful elections, as stipulated in their CHAMP backronym. However, there are also additional functions, including: * The advocacy of electoral reforms * Conducting parallel manual auditing in automated elections * The coordination of parishes for poll-watching * Fielding volunteers * Providing legal assistance related to elections * Reporting of electoral violations * Provision of voters' assistance services * Voters' education 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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