1 INVESTIGATION REPORT ON THE P690 MILLION BSF, JUNE 26, 2010

BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER INVESTIGATION REPORT INVESTIGATION REPORT ON THE P690 MILLION BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER June 28, 2010 BY THE PANEL OF INVESTIGATORS1 : 1. ATTY. FERDINAND T. RAFANAN, Director IV, Law Department 2. ATTY. ADOLFO A. IBANEZ, Director IV,... More

BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER INVESTIGATION REPORT INVESTIGATION REPORT ON THE P690 MILLION BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER June 28, 2010 BY THE PANEL OF INVESTIGATORS1 : 1. ATTY. FERDINAND T. RAFANAN, Director IV, Law Department 2. ATTY. ADOLFO A. IBANEZ, Director IV, Personnel Department 3. ATTY. DIVINA E. BLAS-PEREZ, Director III, Election & Barangay Affairs Department I. BACKGROUND The BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER (BSF) is an ordinary office folder, 14. 5 inches long and 9 inches wide, where one can put some papers inside, but which is marked in front with the words BALLOT SECRECY FOLDER with a Comelec logo at the middle top, intended for the voter to cover his ballot while voting on election day. “CHAIRMAN MELO: We need something to cover it. It can be a piece of paper; it can be a banana leaf. ” (PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT OF STENOGRAPHIC NOTES OF THE SPECIAL EN BANC MEETING HELD ON APRIL 5, 2010, “PANEL 45”) In many elections, this is the folder that we have been using. Except for the specific mark Less