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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday said double registrants continue to plague the poll body’s list of registered and qualified voters.


"Although we were able to delist 130,000 double registrants during the 2004 elections, we still need to continue our program to cleanse the voters’ list," Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said.


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Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the "matching equipment" would be covered by the P1.5 billion for the poll body’s modernization program in its 2006 budget now up for approval in Congress.


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Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the poll body would complete a review of the claims that some election officials were involved in electoral fraud. 


Sadain stressed Comelec has to initiate its own investigation and determine the administrative liability of some of the officials following the testimony of Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani before the Senate.


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                    [Title] => Isabela fiscal clarifies report
                    [Summary] => The provincial prosecutor of Isabela clarified that he did not resign as a member of the provincial board of canvassers simply because he was not part of it.


In a letter to The STAR, provincial prosecutor Anthony Foz said he "did not serve for a moment" in the canvassing board this year because the Commission on Elections (Comelec) had inhibited him from doing so.


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                    [Title] => Another Arroyo disqualification case junked
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo hurdled another disqualification case yesterday after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) dismissed the second of 10 petitions to stop her from taking part in the May 10 polls.


In the ruling, the Comelec’s second division said an assistant city prosecutor has the authority to administer oaths under the law.


"It does not really matter whether the authority of the swearing official is general or specific, as long as the objective that the document must be verified shall have been achieved," read the ruling.


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                    [Title] => House wants Comelec to act speedily on poll preparations
                    [Summary] => House national defense committee chairman Prospero Pichay has called on Commission on Elections Chairman Alfredo Benipayo to act speedily in making preparations for the scheduled barangay and sangguniang kabataan (SK) elections in July.


In a statement, Pichay warned the Comelec may well be unable to perform its constitutional mandate to conduct the scheduled elections in a clean and honest fashion.


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                    [Title] => Destruction of ballot box padlocks probed
                    [Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) ordered yesterday an investigation into the discovery of some 500 official Comelec padlocks in Sultan Kudarat which were destroyed to open ballot boxes in the custody of election officers.


Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain, who is in-charge of Region 12, issued a memorandum directing lawyer Lintang Bedol, Sultan Kudarat election supervisor, to look into how the padlocks were destroyed with the use of an acetylene torch and sold to a junk shop in the province.


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                    [Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) ordered yesterday an investigation into the discovery of some 500 official Comelec padlocks in Sultan Kudarat which were destroyed to open ballot boxes in the custody of election officers.


Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain, who is in-charge of Region 12, issued a memorandum directing lawyer Lintang Bedol, Sultan Kudarat election supervisor, to look into how the padlocks were destroyed with the use of an acetylene torch and sold to a junk shop in the province.


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                    [Title] => Comelec suspends polls in Lanao town
                    [Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) suspended yesterday the holding of national and local elections in the municipality of Tarang in Lanao Del Norte after a lower court ordered the inclusion of 1,800 voters in the certified voters’ list despite their failure to register last year.


Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain, commissioner-in-charge of the region, said he recommended to the commission en banc the suspension of elections in Tarang.


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COMELEC COMMISSIONER MEHOL SADAIN

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"Although we were able to delist 130,000 double registrants during the 2004 elections, we still need to continue our program to cleanse the voters’ list," Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said.


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Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the "matching equipment" would be covered by the P1.5 billion for the poll body’s modernization program in its 2006 budget now up for approval in Congress.


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Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the poll body would complete a review of the claims that some election officials were involved in electoral fraud. 


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In the ruling, the Comelec’s second division said an assistant city prosecutor has the authority to administer oaths under the law.


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Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain, who is in-charge of Region 12, issued a memorandum directing lawyer Lintang Bedol, Sultan Kudarat election supervisor, to look into how the padlocks were destroyed with the use of an acetylene torch and sold to a junk shop in the province.


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