Comelec scraps metal padlocks
By Jocelyn R. Uy
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is shifting from the use of metal padlocks to cheaper plastic seals to secure ballot boxes.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is shifting from the use of metal padlocks to cheaper plastic seals to secure ballot boxes.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has opened the public bidding for the procurement of 30,000 new ballot boxes needed for the midterm elections next year.
The Commission on Elections won’t have to spend more than P100 million on new ballot boxes to replace those containing the ballots still under protest by Transportation Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas, who lost the vice presidential race in the 2010 polls, an election lawyer said Monday.
The Commission on Elections has ordered the Isabela election supervisor to collect ballot boxes from 519 precincts in the province as it prepares for a recount of the 2010 gubernatorial election results.
