COMELEC AND MEGA PACIFIC CONSORTIUM

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                    [Title] => Comelec finds self scrounging for cash
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From out-of-stock bond paper to generators that conk out, the country’s election body is pushed further into the Dark Ages.


A power outage hit the Commission on Elections head office last week that sent all its employees home. The Comelec has generators, but there was no fuel to run them.


The incident was the latest proof that the Comelec is in dire financial straits.


Employees have been complaining of lack of office supplies and delays in the payroll, especially in the provinces.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-08-02 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Jose Aravilla
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                    [Title] => Comelec hopes to computerize 2005 barangay polls
                    [Summary] => The country could finally have its first computerized elections as early as next year for the barangay polls. That’s if the Commission on Elections (Comelec) strikes a compromise agreement with suppliers of the automated counting machines (ACMs) whose deal with the poll body was invalidated by the Supreme Court before the May 10 elections.


The Comelec and Mega Pacific Consortium — which provided 1,991 ACMs that were supposed to be used in the last elections — are embroiled in a legal battle before a Makati court.


                    [DatePublished] => 2004-07-16 00:00:00
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Comelec finds self scrounging for cash

By Jose Aravilla | August 2, 2004 - 12:00am

From out-of-stock bond paper to generators that conk out, the country’s election body is pushed further into the Dark Ages. A power outage hit the Commission on Elections head office last week that sent all...

News Commentary

Comelec hopes to computerize 2005 barangay polls

By Jose Aravilla | July 16, 2004 - 12:00am

The country could finally have its first computerized elections as early as next year for the barangay polls. That’s if the Commission on Elections (Comelec) strikes a compromise agreement with suppliers of...

Headlines