As of 6pm Monday, the Commission on Elections provincial office had received reports that at least 29 machines malfunctioned.
Provincial election supervisor Carlito Ravelo said the province’s 20 towns and two cities have one spare PCOS machine each aside from the four extra machines at the Commission on Elections provincial office.
In Valencia, some voters complained that their names were not on the Comelec’s master lists, according to Roving Amvat, coordinator of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) in Barangay Lumbo.
Ma. Luz Sumalinog, city PPCRV coordinator said she feared a low voter turnout in Lumbo due to the summer heat. In clustered precinct 135, the biggest in the area, only 344 of 989 registered voters had voted as of 1:45pm. Voters complained of having to queue for hours aside from having to skip lunch.
In Aglayan, Malaybalay City, Avelina Sotto, 54, and her family spent almost three hours Monday morning looking for her name in the barangay’s 20 precincts. Her husband and two sons had already voted.
At least 14 others in the barangay shared Sotto’s ordeal. She told MindaNews her family was surprised because she had voted in the past three elections in the same precinct, 44B.
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Why is my name not on the list?” she added.
However, the names of at least 10 people who were already dead were still on the lists of voters in Aglayan.
Nita Robillos, PPCRV chair in Aglayan said the Comelec can solve the perennial problem of missing names of voters by posting the lists in the barangays before the election itself.
“Why this has not been done is a big mystery to us. Always, in every election, people find trouble looking for [their] names,” she added.
The transmission of the results from the towns of Bukidnon was also delayed. As of 7:05 am Tuesday only the results from Sumilao, Lantapan Pangantucan, Don Carlos, and Libona had reached the provincial canvassing center in Malaybalay.
Among the reasons cited were poor signal in some areas and the lack of modems. In Valencia City for example, only five modems were available for the 27 PCOS machines.
In Ipil town, Zamboanga Sibugay, election officer Alberto Alar said that around 10 of the 64 PCOS machines had “minor glitches” causing delays in the voting process Monday. The machines either rejected the ballots or experienced paper jams.||| |||buy cenforce online with |||