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Comelec spokesman James Arthur Jimenez said the entire poll body, in a closed-door session yesterday, decided to file the motion 10 days after receipt of the copy of the Ombudsman’s findings on the controversy.


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Electoral lessons

July 9, 2006 - 12:00am

It was a good thing that the Mega Pacific eSolution, Inc. (MPEI) finally broke its silence over the controversial issue of the automated counting machines that has been hounding the company and the Commission on...

Business

Comelec to file ACM case motion

By James Mananghaya | July 5, 2006 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections will ask the Office of the Ombudsman to reconsider its recommendation to impeach Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra over the scrapped deal with the private consortium MegaPacific...

Headlines

Mega Pacific ordered to return money for botched poll modernization

By Aurea Calica | July 17, 2004 - 12:00am

The Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) is asking Mega Pacific e-Solutions Inc. (MPEI) to reimburse the P1.05 billion the Commission on Elections (Comelec) paid for the aborted poll automation project and...

Headlines

Mega Pacific files P222-M suit vs Comelec officials

By Evelyn Macairan | March 25, 2004 - 12:00am

Mega Pacific eSolutions Inc. (MPEI) has filed a P222 million damage suit against the Commission on Elections after its contract to supply the Comelec with automated counting machines (ACMs) for the May elections...

Headlines

Account for P1 B paid to Mega, Comelec told

By Marichu A. Villanueva | March 24, 2004 - 12:00am

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has to account for the P1.03 billion it paid for the botched contract with Mega Pacific eSolutions Inc. (MPEI) for the planned automation of the May 10 elections, President Arroyo...

Headlines