'All systems go': Comelec asserts failure of elections not an option

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections assured the public that contingencies were in place for the high-stakes May 9 vote, doubling down on the commitment to deliver a reliable automated polls.

Days away from the crucial polls, the election body had been conducting a week-long final testing and sealingCasquejo, who also heads the steering committee of the 2022 polls, reported on Thursday that out of the 70,924 VCMs that underwent a final test, only 355, or 0.5% of the total, showed defects and had to be replaced.

The 355 machines classified as defective during this election season’s FTS are already being repaired at the Comelec’s warehouse in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.The Comelec has around 107,000 VCMs for the 2022 polls – 10,000 of which were specifically leased for the upcoming elections, and 97,000 that have been used in past elections, but have undergone refurbishment.

Specifically, voters in the affected precinct are given the opportunity to either continue casting their ballots with waiver of their right to be issued a voter receipt, as the ballots will later be batch-fed by poll workers, or wait for the VCM malfunction to be resolved so they can personally feed the ballot into the machine., which was promulgated in January.

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