Despite initial reservations on voter turnout on its mock polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it was able to “successfully” conduct the nationwide activity on Wednesday.
Despite initial reservations on voter turnout on its mock polls, the Commission on Elections said it was able to “successfully” conduct the nationwide activity on Wednesday.
“In fact, in most places we have a 100 percent turnout versus our expected number of voters so I think the exercise itself was very well run,” Jimenez said.“All of the canvass reports were successfully transmitted to the NBOC [National Board of Canvassers]. So our canvasing is 100 percent,” Jimenez said.Comelec Pasay First District Election Officer Ronald O. Santiago also lauded the high voter participation rate in the mock polls.
Election watchdog National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections , which joined in the event as an observer, also made the same remark that certain health protocols like social distancing, wearing of face masks, disinfection of hands and election materials were not strictly implemented.Another concern raised by Namfrel was the report that vote-counting machine in Pateros, which rejected ballots several times.