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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Election exec says no funds for automated ARMM polls

AN ELECTION official doubts if they could realize in pilot testing the conduct of an automated elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm) this year.

Sulu provincial election supervisor Vidzfar Juli said they don't have enough time to conduct information and education campaign to the voters in the region about the new system of the election.

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Aside from that, Juli said they don't have the needed funding to purchase additional machines to be used in the entire autonomous region.

Armm comprises of the provinces of Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur and Shariff Kabunsuan and the city of Marawi.

Juli said they need big amount of funds that could reach billions of pesos to buy a machine each of the 3,000 precincts in Armm.

He said they have only an allocation of P300 million for the conduct of the election on August 11 in the autonomous region.

He added that most likely the elections from voting to canvassing will be done manually. (Bong Garcia)

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