Comelec in crisis anew a week prior to polls 10/18/2010

Comelec in crisis anew a week prior to polls

10/18/2010
A week before the nationwide barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections, the Comelec admitted being confronted with wasted voting forms, delayed procurement of election materials and a shortage of ballot boxes.

Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said that it is looking into the reason for the huge spoilage in the printing of ballots of the National Printing Office (NPO) headed by recently appointed director Manuel Andaya. Sarmiento said the Comelec will ask Andaya to explain a high five percent wastage in the printing of ballots compared to the average two percent spoilage rate of the NPO in past ballot printing.

The Comelec’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) had notified the Comelec en banc of the need to purchase additional 300 reams of ballot paper due to the high NPO spoilage rate.

Sarmiento said that the purchase of the extra ballot papers would cost the Comelec P14.5 million..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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