CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (05/10/10, 3:00 pm) – According to COMELEC, voting was extended to 7 pm but the PPCRV is still worried that many would be disenfranchised because of the slow voting process in most of the precincts in Misamis Oriental and Camiguin. Because of this, voting will be possibly extended beyond 7 pm.
General observation as of 2:15 this afternoon is that more than 1/4 of the voting population in each precinct has casted their vote. As observed also more people have been served a priority number but are still waiting for their turn.
As of 10 am this morning, 7 PCOS machines were reported by PPCRV volunteers to have bogged down – three were recorded by District 2, one in District 4, and another in District 5. In Sagay, Camiguin, the machine stopped accepting ballots after 60 successful votes and had to be restarted.
“Although they replace the machines, the time they take to do so is wasted,” said Fr. Nathaniel C. Lerio, head of the PPCRV-CdO. “We have tried calling the local Smartmatics to bring this inefficiency to their attention but they have not answered our calls.”
Archbishop Antonio J. Ledesma, SJ, DD, had already expressed his concern that the voting process itself is taking so long. “I voted this morning and I noted that it takes 2-5 minutes, at the fastest, to vote per person,” he said. “There was only one lady facilitating the checking of the records of the voters. I suggested that two or more people could be added to facilitate the checking because this is the bottleneck of the entire process.”
Because of the slow process, many voters have become impatient and the polling precincts have become more disordered.
The PPCRV is now readying the roving team for the extended voting. The team will facilitate the retrieval of the official Election Results.
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