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Testing and sealing of VCMs to end Saturday, May 7, 2022, says Comelec commissioner Garcia (Eagle News) – At least 355 vote counting machines have been found to have some problems as the Commission on Elections finished the distribution of these machines as well as the ballots to be used in the national and local elections on Monday, May 9. Comelec commissioner George Garcia said that in the course of the testing and sealing […]
(Eagle News)–There have been fewer witness reports of irregularities in the 2019 elections, results of a recent Social Weather Stations survey showed. According to the Second Quarter 2019 Social Weather Survey conducted from June 22 to 26, compared to June 2016, the proportion of those who personally witnessed vote-buying fell from 19% to 10%. The SWS said those who read or heard this from reliable sources on the other hand fell from 23% to 15%. […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is now looking for options for automated elections technology providers that could be presented to the Commission on Elections as an alternative to the controversial Smartmatic technology. Information and Communications Technology Secretary Eliseo Rio Jr., said that his department is now complying with President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to look for an alternative to Smartmatic which the President wants to be replaced for the […]
(Eagle News)–Stop using Smartmatic. President Rodrigo Duterte gave this advice to the Commission on Elections, following the May 13 polls that saw the breakdown of some vote-counting machines. Duterte made the statement even as many of his senatorial candidates garnered the votes necessary to make it to the winning circle, and practically obliterated the opposition Otso Diretso, which did not see any of its Senate bets make it to the Top 12. Bam Aquino was […]
(Eagle News)—Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol’s voting in Kidapawan was delayed on Monday, May 13, after the vote-counting machine refused to accept his ballot. In a Facebook post, Piñol said after an hour of waiting following the rejection, he asked the 3-member electoral board in his polling precinct in Paco to examine what went wrong. He said after a “thorough inspection,” the chairperson noticed that there was a “ballpen marking on the edge of the ballot.” […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections said that around 400 to 600 vote counting machines had problems out of the around 85,000 machines being used for the May 13, 2019 midterm elections. In a press briefing, Comelec said that the ballot machines which were defective had to be replaced. “We understand that the perception is that there are a lot of VCMs that have malfunctioned. Right now, I can tell you that the […]
(Eagle News)–“Unintended inefficiency?” This was the question posed by Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, May 13, following reports some vote-counting machines in polling precincts malfunctioned. “First time, maybe. Second time, we’ll.. okay, let’s see. Third time, let’s bring them to court, or strangle them,” Lacson said in a Tweet. Reports of VCMs malfunctioning were rampant in parts of Metro Manila. Senator Grace Poe’s voting for instance was delayed in San Juan after the VCM rejected […]
In this report by Odessa Cruz, Eagle News correspondent in Maguindanao, some vote counting machines in Maguindanao was allegedly not working, delaying the elections in some areas there on Monday morning, May 13.
Isasailalim sa source code review ng mga local expert ang vote counting machines (VCMs) na gagamitin sa darating na eleksyon sa 2019. Ayon kay Commission on Elections Spokesperson James Jimenez, ang nasabing review ay makakatulong para matiyak ang integridad ng mga makina na gagamitin sa nalalapit na halalan. Katulad ng nagdaang eleksyon, ang Comelec ang magpapatakbo ng mga makina mula sa Smartmatic. Susundinng makina ang 25 percent shading threshold policy kapareho noong 2016 elections. Samantala, […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Titingnan umano ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang isyu na inapela ni dating senador Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., sa unang araw ng manual recount kaugnay ng kanyang electoral protest laban kay Vice President Leni Robredo. Partikular dito ang basa umanong mga balota. Ayon kay Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez, ihahambing nila sa general instructions ang mga isyu kabilang na ang disposition ng vote counting machines (VCM), ballot boxes, election returns […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started the procedure of returning the vote counting machines (VCM) to Smartmatic, ignoring the request made by former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to preserve these for his protest case towards Vice President Leni Robredo. This came about as the Supreme Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), authorized the poll body to immediate start the procedure of returning the VCMs. “Authorize the Comelec […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) – An informant revealed massive cheating during the May 9 elections. He alleged that a special war room was set-up in the Southern Tagalog region where nine vote-counting machines (VCM) were set-up by the personnel of Smartmatic. According to the informant, most of the votes went to the aforementioned machines before being sent to official vote-counting machines. (Eagle News Service description by Jaypaul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded […]
