Junnie asks Comelec to probe alterations in city’s voters’ list

Bogo City Mayor Celestino Martinez, Jr. yesterday requested the Commission on Elections to look into alleged irregularities causing some names of voters to be missing from the voters’ list in some barangays.

Martinez, in a telephone interview, said his camp already noticed the same problems during the May polls wherein some of their supporters complained that their names

were not in the voters’ list.

The mayor said that the voter turnout in elections prior to the 2007 elections was usually 70 to 75 percent. During the last May polls, however, the voter turnout in the city was only 65 percent.

Martinez said he is one of those whose names was transferred to another barangay. He said that for several elections in the past, he is a registered voter of barangay Pedro Rodriguez. Lately, however, his name was transferred to another barangay.

“Gusto kita nga adunay tinud-anay nga imbestigasyon kabahin niini, gumikan kay gusto ta nga mataral kadtong mga tawo nga maoy naghimo niini nga mga binuang,” he said.

Comelec officials earlier reported that Bogo City voters complained that they could not find

their names in the voters’ list in their barangay. Some claimed their names were transferred to another barangay.

Bogo Election Assistant Jose Barriga said that the voters who complained were from barangay Sto. Rosario, all of whom voted in the May 14 elections.

He admitted he and his staff were also surprised by the development

because they did not alter the list of voters. — Jose P. Sollano/QSB