Poll commission rejects public disclosure of folder case By Marie A. Surbano 06/30/2010

Poll commission rejects public disclosure of folder case

By Marie A. Surbano 06/30/2010 Poll commissioners are once again refusing to come clean with the public, as they have rejected the move to make the findings of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) panel that investigated the overpriced ballot secrecy folder issue. All they offered to make the public was that the folders were overpriced which the public already knew. The conclusion given by the panel was that the controversial ballot secrecy folder that was supposed to be used for the May 10 polls was “overpriced.” This was the result of the more than one month investigation conducted by the three-man panel created by the Comelec last April after the en banc discovered that the folder cost P380 per piece or a total of P689 million for the 1.8 million folders. But, apparently, the commissioners weren’t ready to accept the findings of their created panel, saying that they will be endorsing this instead to the Ombudsman for a more thorough investigation.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100630hed5.html

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