The Commission on Elections has approved the grant of P2,000 in additional honoraria for teachers who performedon May 9 due to faulty vote-counting machines that forced voting in certain precincts to extend up to the wee hours the next day.
But P3,000 was the actual amount that Education Secretary Leonor Briones had sought from the Comelec for extra compensation to the teachers who served as electoral board staff on overtime.‘From our savings’ The Comelec has yet to determine which precincts had defective VCMs that caused thousands of voters to wait in long lines and some to wait up to nearly 24 hours just to make sure that their ballots would be properly fed into the machines.
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