Clustering to allow only 8.3M to vote, says PMP

MASSIVE DISENFRANCHISEMENT PLUS ZOMBIE VOTERS EQUALS POLL FAILURE Clustering to allow only 8.3M to vote, says PMP By Gerry Baldo 03/07/2010 Zombie voters, or double registrants, estimated at three to five million people may be the least of the problems in the May 10 elections if computations of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) on the electoral process on the voting day itself prove true as the estimate only puts around 8.3 million of the 50 million registered voters would be able to cast their votes. PMP senatorial candidate and former Negros Occidental Rep. Apolinario “Jun” Lozada said it would take 4.8 days of voting to be able to accommodate all the registered voters for the May 10 polls given an average of seven minutes per voter needed to complete the process from thumb printing, shading of the ballot, and feeding the ballot into the counting machines. He said the wholesale disenfranchisement of voters is likely after the decision of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cluster five precincts into one counting machine. “We are really worried. This would be worse than massive cheating,” Lozada told reporters covering the PMP campaign sortie.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary20100307hed1.html

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