Beginning today, the Commission of Elections (Comelec) will separate the grain from the chaff.

The arduous task of weeding out nuisance candidates will be the next focus of the commission, two days after it stopped accepting certificates of candidacy (COC) from thousands of candidates aspiring for the more than 18,000 elective posts nationwide.

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