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Monday, October 17, 2005

Election Modernization and Missing Ballot Boxes Interview Transcript - 10/17/2005

COMMITTEE HEARING
CONSTITTUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, REVISION OF LAWS AND CODES

GORDON: There is a clear direction to modernize the election and the sole purpose of this meeting was to be in aid of legislation. A technical working group has been formulated for the modernization of the elections and we have found out that there are discrepancies in the ballot boxes and the electoral returns submitted to the Senate as well as the Lower House. And the Senate has also gotten cooperation from the Comelec in so far as they are reporting on the 216,000 electoral returns that they have. In the meantime, we are going to expand the previous law on automated elections to make it more flexible, to be able to utilize technology and not to limit it to the utilization of ballots but as well as through electronic messages.

INTERVIEWER: Comment on the letter from the majority leader of the house not allowing the two officials to appear before this hearing?

GORDON: It is a very cordial letter and they merely expressed their concern that there was a concurrent presidential electoral tribunal investigation going on and they want to make sure that this does not collide with the principle of sub judice in term of conducting this investigation.

My reply there was simply that this is all in aid of legislation that we sent letters requesting for Bayani Fabic, House Sergeant of Arms and Tim Adaza was informed also but the letter of Cong. Nograles referred only to Bayani Fabic. Nonetheless, we told them that this is just an investigation in aid of legislation – not to impute blame or to find fault.

This is in aid of legislation to modernize the elections and the Senate has a clear, pursuant to rules, conservation of merit to conduct inquiries in aide of legislation. So again we are writing them a letter stating that we have found out that there may be discrepancies and so we have to carefully, again, re-evaluate the number of ballot boxes and electoral returns as well as other documents submitted here and what was turned over in the House, they have 68, we have 65 and we want to make sure that they are properly in order. We are not saying that there are some discrepancies already. All we are saying is we want to make sure that we are on the same page and we are starting with the same facts.

INTERVIEWER: You just explained the impact of the discrepancies between the House and the Senate count over the number of ballot boxes there?

GORDON: Well, you can really see that if you cannot stack a minimum of 25 electoral returns in one ballot box certainly, according to the Comelec as well as the other resource persons today, you cannot stack more than 50. You cannot even bring in 50 because there are other more documents. There would be hundreds of thousands of names of voters or results that would not be counted and right now, you are talking about 216,000 precincts involved so we have to find out kung saan napunta ‘yan.

And certainly because this is a basic right of the citizenry to make sure that their votes are properly guarded, we have a duty to take a look at that and what we will find out will be the result of a bill that we are now trying to draft and submit hopefully before the end of this year so that we could have a state of the art elections by the year 2007.

We have formed technical group here and the chairman will be Secretary Alabastro together with the Comelec and Mr. Seneres as well as some information technology agencies. We are also going to have some consultants from the Senate and hopefully with that we can come out with the very imaginative and very effective legislation so that this could be the legacy of both the administration and the legislature to the people of this country. The 5 Fs –- Fast, Friendly, Fair, Flexible and Forward looking Filipino elections.

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