The election day stories of B and J are not unique. Hundreds of vote-counting machines encountered issues during the May 9 polls. These VCMs are machines and subject to human error, tampering, extreme temperatures and maybe even Internet signal.
MY friend B waited for around 13 hours on May 9 to feed her ballot into the vote-counting machine in her precinct. Her family had to bring her two meals, a snack and lots of drinks . She had to use the not-too-clean public toilet but she waited until the VCM worked again.Another friend, let’s call her J, was a poll watcher that day and the precinct to which she was assigned also had a problem with the VCM. The SD card was in a province three hours away from said precinct.
As someone who has voted so many times, I believe in trusting the process when it comes to the country’s Automated Election System. Yes, we may be having problems now but I hope the government works on them so that the next elections will be seamless and hassle-free for all. The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections has actually proposed changes in the country’s Automated Elections System. Among these changes include the printing of QR codes on both the election returns and the voter verifiable paper audit trail or the receipt that comes out of the vote counting machines after voting.
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