' Post-election thoughts ' May 9th, election day was my first time as a senior citizen and the sixth automated election that I voted in. I recently transferred voting precincts to where my permanent residence is and, with more than 54 million- Read more👇
May 9th, election day was my first time as a senior citizen and the sixth automated election that I voted in. I recently transferred voting precincts to where my permanent residence is and, with more than 54 million voters, fulfilled my duty as a citizen of the Philippines. Together with my family, we trooped to our assigned voting center in the first hours — but the queue was already out on the streets. There were many volunteers helping the voters, especially seniors like me.
Let’s do some fast fact-checking of these VCM incidents. There are allegations that more VCMs had malfunctioned in this election than in previous automated elections. According to COMELEC reports, in the 2019 mid-term elections, 2.64% VCMs were replaced in various voting clustered precincts which is much higher than this election that counted only 0.86%. To put a numbers perspective on this, out of 106,174 VCMs deployed all over the country, only 200 were reported to have problems.
But even this feat which critics used to hit for delays and efficiency issues was met with suspicion by some for being “too fast” instead of commending the Commission on Elections for effectively addressing the transmission problems of the past with more robust technology.
There are also allegations that there were 1,800 defective VCMs countering COMELEC’s figures of only 200. This is again erroneous, because this actually represented 1,800 technical support or troubleshooting assistance given to solve rather simple user related issues like paper jams, switching on the VCM, and other things that did not necessarily need VCM or SD Card replacement.
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