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66   ENHANCING ELECTIONS AS INSTRUMENTS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ASEAN REGION





                    2004                    2010                   2016

           Balanced Scorecard Dimensions
                                   •  Despite general

                                      public distrust, high
                                      voter enthusiasm due
                                      to the novelty of AES
                                      was a major success
                                      factor.

           Lack of an effective Voter   COMELEC established  Increase in organized
           Education campaign      more productive media  Candidate Forums
           •  Lack of guidance  partnerships for Voter  •  Three presidential
              and materials from   Education and informa-     debates and one
              COMELEC.             tion dissemination         VP debate were
           •  Lack of funding for  •  Due to merged           s u c ce s s f u l l y
              Candidate Forums.       functions of the Public    co-organized by

                                      Relations and Voter     COMELEC with
                                      Education Departments,    targeted media
                                      COMELEC was able to     partners (GMA 7,
                                      enlist print, broadcast,    TV 5, and ABS-CBN
                                      and local and online    for the presidential
                                      media in Voter          debates and CNN
                                      Education and AES       Philippines for the

                                      information dissemi-    VP debate).
                                      nation (e.g. proper  •  Online news media
                                      shading of ballots via   outfit, Rappler, and
                                      “Bilog na Hugis Itlog”   partner universities
                                      campaign advertise-     (AMA University,
                                      ment).                  University of the
                                                              Philippines-Diliman,
                                                              and Polytechnic
                                                              University of the
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