The only problem the
local Commission on Elections (Comelec)
offices encountered during the mock elections held on Saturday, Jan. 9, was
poor signal on the transmission of vote results.
In Bohol
province, mock elections were held in two barangays each in Cortes and
Alburquerque towns.
The
provincial Comelec office said the vote-counting machines (VCMs) that the votes
in the mock canvassing had been 100 percent transmitted shortly after 4:05 p.m.
Saturday.
The mock
elections aimed to have all votes accounted for in the 2019 midterm
elections. It was also to test the automated voting machines, transmittal of votes and
results to the canvassers in the head office, as well as its new Voter
Registration Verification System.
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| Some election officers in Bohol during the mock elections held in Alburquerque town, Bohol, on Saturday, Jan. 19,
to test the integrity of the vote counting machines (VCM).
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On
Saturday, votes from the clustered precints had to be transmitted to three
servers: the Comelec Central Server, the Transparency Server, and the National
Board of Canvassers (NBOC).
The NBOC,
which will declare the final results, gets the votes through a careful
step-by-step process.
In this
process, the votes from polling precincts have to be transmitted to the
municipal board of canvassers (MBOC) then to the provincial board of canvassers
(PBOC), before being beamed to the NBOC.
During
the mock canvassing on Saturday, the transmission to the Comelec Central Server
and the Transparency Server finished an hour earlier than the transmission to
the NBOC.
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| Environmental lawyer and
triathlete Ingemar Macarine, also known as the “Pinoy Aquaman”, with Ric Obedencio (of The Freeman/Philippine Star, extreme right) , Allen Doydora (of DYRD, extreme left, ) and your VRS during the mock elections on Saturday, Jan. 19. Macarine is the election officer of Tubigon. |
There
were two precints each for Cortes and Alburquerque towns which
catered 100 voters per precint.
In
Barangay Dangay in Alburquerque town, there
were four precints in cluster at Dangay Elem. School with 87 voters.
The
transmissions from Dangay Elem. School did the Comelec Central Serve and the
Transparency Server, but it failed to reach the municipal Municipal board of canvassers. But it was
later solved by an IT from the Comelec.
Christopher
Peralta, election officer 2 of Alburquerque Comelec office, said that there was
no problem during the casting of votes.
He
said the only problem was poor signal.
“Number 1 la
siguro sa problema nato karun is yung pag-receive ng mga
result galing ng cluster precints. Naka-pagtrasmit na sila pero sa MBOC is
hindi natin matanggap,” he said.
But in
2016 elections, he said Barangay Dangay had 100% successful transmission of vote results.
Peralta said that the mock
elections was an opportunity for the Comelec in Bohol to find ways to address
this particular problem should this happen during this year’s elections.
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