Comelec can’t count? EDITORIAL The Daily Tribune 04/07/2010 Clearly, the claimed cancellation of the close to P700 million contract for “secrecy folders” which is nothing but a poll scam, was yet another “face saving” measure of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners after being caught red-handed foisting a scam on the Filipino people. There was an awarding by the commission for the procurement of 1.8 million secrecy folder costing P3.80 per piece but passed on as P380 per piece--an astronomical overprice. The spin being given by the commissioners, after this scam was bared, was that it was canceling the contract because not only was the price extravagant, but also that the number of folders was beyond the ordinary needs of the commission. But can’t the commissioners and the executive director, Jose Tolentino, along with other poll executives involved in this scam, count? First off, why award this contract for l,800,000 folders — even if it has not, as claimed, been signed...