COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos threatens to sue the son of JDV

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said that he will file charges against Jose de Venecia III for accusing him of attempted bribery.

Jose de Venecia III, also known as Joey, is the son of Jose de Venecia Jr. (JDV) and co-founder of Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI). According to him, Abalos tried to bribe him with $10 million to withdraw his company’s bid to bag the national broadband network (NBN) supply contract with the Department of Transportation and Communications where he immediately declined the money.

Meanwhile, the embattled Chairman Abalos stressed that he never offered any money to anybody to support the project and he is not even part of the broadband deal. He also said that he do not have $10 million to bribe the younger de Venecia.

The COMELEC chairman was indicted of brokering the deal on behalf of China’s ZTE Corp. He purportedly received generous gifts from ZTE officials, including women. Abalos, however, denied the allegations.

source: abs-cbnnews.com

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Stampede on the Registration for SK, Barangay Election

A sum of almost 1,800 voters had a commotion while trying to register for SK, Barangay Poll at Arroceros, Manila.

According to reports, it was 4 in the afternoon when the stampede happened which caused damage to COMELEC’s door, and injured 18 citizens.

Since there’s only one computer issued to each district (excluding 1st and 5th District who had 2 computers), only 10 persons were allowed to enter the COMELEC office to get a registration form. .

According to an election officer, one (1) computer can only serve 25 persons per hour but the commotion has nothing to do with it, but it’s because of the unorganized crowd control.

Distribution of registration forms will be until July 22, and voters can submit their form and have their picture for registration until June 28.

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