May 11, 2013
Prepared by:
NAMFREL CDO-Mis.Or. Chapter
On May 10, 2013,
the City COMELEC Office issued to the City Treasurer the authorization to use
improvised envelopes for the compact flash (CF) cards, as part of the election
paraphernalia for the coming Monday’s election. The City Treasurer’s Office had
not received the official window envelopes, or the CEF A18-H, for the CF cards
from COMELEC, Manila. Atty. Palmer Palamine, the City Election Officer,
authorized the City Treasurer’s Office to improvise window envelopes for
allocation to the different voting precincts, to comply with the general
instructions of the Board of Election Inspectors regarding the sealing of the
Compact Flash (CF) cards after the election.
City
Treasurer, Engr. Marilyn Legaspi, invited representatives from the Parish
Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), National Citizens’ Movement
for Free Elections (NAMFREL), the Liberal Party (LP), Padayon Pilipino
(PDP), the Centrist Democratic Party of
the Philippines, and the United Nationalist Alliance to witness the creation of
the improvised envelopes. The envelopes were labeled with sequence numbers
1-360, one for each voting precinct in Cagayan de Oro. The representatives
present then countersigned the improvised envelopes.
Just
as the activity ended, the envelopes from the COMELEC eventually arrived at
10:30 AM. However, when counted in front of the representatives, only 350 of
the 360 required envelopes were received. The first ten improvised and
countersigned envelopes were then used to complete the number of required
envelopes, while the remaining 350 improvised envelopes were destroyed.
The
ten improvised envelopes, with the minutes of this morning’s meeting attached,
will be deployed to MOGCHS tomorrow along with one original COMELEC envelope
for easier tracking and monitoring. ###
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