Manila, May 19 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Baguio said it will distribute this week the honoraria of the 1,448 electoral board members, Department of Education supervising officer (DESO), and assistant and technical persons, who served during last week's polls this week.

"We will start to withdraw the money which amount cannot be done by one branch due to the total," lawyer John Paul Martin, city election officer, said in a media interview on Monday.

He said the payroll for the electoral board is already being prepared, even as the Comelec verifies with the DESO the actual number of persons who reported on election day.

"We have to be very careful that we give to the eligible worker who actually reported on election day,...