CenPEG slams Comelec for denial of poll data access 08/18/2010

CenPEG slams Comelec for denial of poll data access

08/18/2010 The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), in a statement issued yesterday, deplored the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) denial of a long-standing request by the UP-based policy institution for copies of 21 documents issued in connection with the May 10 automated elections. The Comelec en banc decision dated July 6, contained in Minute Resolution No. 10-0650, gave no reason for denying CenPEG’s request, its executive director Evita Jimenez said The en banc decision was received by CenPEG only last week with a letter dated July 26 from Comelec executive director Jose Tolentino Jr. of the controversial secrecy folder scam. “The denial is a transgression of the people’s right to public information,” Jimenez said. “This belies the Comelec’s claim of transparency on the automated elections and violates voters’ right to know what really happened in the national and local polls” The request, signed and sent to the Comelec by Jimenez and other CenPEG directors on June 3, was prompted by increasing reports of technical failures and other irregularities in the May 10 elections giving rise to questions on the accuracy and credibility of the political exercise..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100818hed6.html

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