Lawyer Gay Enumerables, assistant regional director of the Commission on Elections 11 (Comelec 11), said a polling precinct in Davao City accidentally deleted the data in the SD card of the Voting Counting Machine (VCM) for transmission.
“Naa’y isa ka presinto sa Davao City nga nagre-zero. Ang advise is re-feeding the entire more than 500 ballots of the said polling precinct,” Enumerables said during the AFP-PNP media briefing on Wednesday.
Enumerables did not give the details of the said polling precinct but assured that the backup of the deleted data was still used for the manual transmission.
“Dili ta makabasol sa teachers kasi from kadlawon pa lang, ang kakapoy nila seguro tungod sa ilang kakapoy na re-zero nila. Wala pa sila ka transmit na re-zero sila. But we were shocked because during the training gina-emphasized namo na wala’y re-zeroing ang mahitabo on Election Day kasi wala gyud sulod ang SD card,” she said.
Enumerables said Comelec 11 also received issues encountered with the use of VCMs on election day that include paper jams, rejected ballots, and vote-counting machines not printing returns properly.
“First few hours ang reklamo was paper jam. Naa pud machine nga niaso and naa pud machine nga nag-flicker ang LCD,” she said.
She assured that the issues did not affect the conduct of the election as Comelec 11 has contingency VCMs.
Meanwhile, Enumerables announced that all precincts in Davao City have already transmitted 100 percent of the electoral returns.
“Nahuman na ang atong election until such time maka-proclaim ta in Davao City and Davao del Norte this afternoon. Thankful mi na maayo ug peaceful and no untoward incidents sa among end,” she said.
