THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has submitted to Congress a 963-page draft detailing the overhaul of the 39-year-old Batas Pambansa 881, or the Omnibus Election Code (OEC), noting the law needs to be upgraded for present realities.
"Time has changed. There are lots of election offenses that are beyond the authority of the Comelec because there is no enabling law for it," Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia said.
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