Ballot printing may finished next week–Comelec
By Matikas Santos
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has only less than 10 million ballots left to print with more than a month to go before the May 2013 midterm elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has only less than 10 million ballots left to print with more than a month to go before the May 2013 midterm elections.
A lawmaker from Quezon province expressed worries on the poll body’s decision to print ballots for the 2013 midterm elections at the National Printing Office (NPO).
Touting its printing machines as the “latest in the world,” the National Printing Office (NPO) has confidently announced that it can finish printing the more than 52 million official ballots for the May 13 elections two weeks before the deadline.
The National Printing Office (NPO) with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) unveiled Wednesday their new facilities that will be used for the printing of the 2013 election ballots.
The House minority bloc on Wednesday called for an investigation into the alleged anomalies of the National Printing Office in awarding the contract to print ballots for the 2013 elections to a private firm.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) was grilled Monday at the Senate over problems in the printing of the ballots for the 2013 midterm elections.
The Office of the Ombudsman has found sufficient grounds to indict acting National Printing Office director Emmanuel Andaya and five other NPO bidding committee officials on graft charges for failing to bid out a contract to print accountable forms for the Cebu provincial treasurer’s office.
House minority leader Danilo Suarez on Wednesday called for an investigation into the awarding of the government contract for the printing of the ballots for next year’s elections to a private firm.
Two losing bidders—Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) and a consortium including a subsidiary of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT)—are protesting the National Printing Office’s (NPO) decision to award a P780-million contract to supply and print 55 million ballots for next year’s midterm elections to Holy Family Printing Corp. and its partner Canon Marketing Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines—Two officials of the National Printing Office (NPO) have offered to “tell all” on unlawful activities of top-ranking officials in the agency in exchange for their immunity from suit. The two officials, Federico Ramos Jr. and Florencia Reyes, were among the NPO personnel whom the Office of the Ombudsman earlier ordered dismissed following a [...]
