Erice says Comelec should just use existing machines

Former Caloocan representative Edgar Erice has requested the Supreme Court to direct the Commission on Elections to use its existing inventory of 97,000 vote-counting machines in the 2025 polls.

“It borders on absurdity why Comelec needed to conduct a bidding for the lease of vote-counting machines and other election-related paraphernalia when it already made a prior purchase of the very same items for which the bidding was conducted,” Erice said. “In support of the President’s call for fiscal prudence, Comelec might want to reuse the VCMs it already owns, thereby saving the taxpayers at least P8 billion,” Erice said.

“Our study of the Comelec’s TOR shows that the existing VCMs already satisfy 184 out of the 194 requirements for OMR,” he said, adding that the remaining 5% “still needs further study but none of these are related to the accuracy of results.”

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