Incompetence, thy name is Comelec EDITORIAL 05/11/2010

Incompetence, thy name is Comelec

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 05/11/2010 Every election year, the poll body, early in the voting game, always claims that there is a huge turnout of voters, something like 80 percent to 85 percent. It is a source of amazement just how these Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials can easily give out the high percentage of voters turnout so early in the day, since voting has not been finished as yet when the percentages are given out and there really is no way for the poll officials to give out percentage estimates of the voters’ turnout. But they do. Everytime. About the only time this can be done accurately is when the count is done, and the certificates of canvass, compiled, can this percentage of voters show just what the turnout was. Yet another statement being made by the poll officials was that there was a large turnout of voters in yesterday’s elections, as long lines have formed. But that is a pretty stupid thing for them to say, especially since they know that, as they had decided to cluster 250,000 precincts to just 76,000 precincts nationwide, with an average of some 1,000 voters per automated clustered precinct, that there is a huge turnout of voters, from the long lines of voters being formed..... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100511com1.html

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