Temperature Range: for president, vice
By Gerry Baldo 06/02/2010 The question of how the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines worked during the last elections raised more apprehensions yesterday as the National Board of Canvassers (NBoC) found that there were over 800,000 votes that were nullified for vice president and over 500,000 votes nullified for the presidential race. Speaker Prospero Nograles, co-chairman of the joint canvassing panel, said that of the 10 million votes so far canvassed, almost 10 percent were considered void. He stated that the reason for the high incidence of void ballots could be “over voting, under voting or the ballots were not properly read” by the PCOS machines. “There could have been over voting, under voting or the PCOS machines failed to read the ballots,” Nograles told reporters yesterday. The canvass for the positions of president and vice president proceeded yesterday at the House of Representatives where the NBoC, composed of members of the Senate and the House, had convened amid objections raised by some lawyers of the presidential and vice presidential candidates. Among the issues raised by the lawyers were those pertaining to discrepancies in the number of votes relative to the actual votes cast; questions about due execution and genuiness of the ballots and the alleged lowering by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of the threshold from 100 percent to accommodate the proclamation of local candidates. Lawyer Ralph Calinisan, representing former President Joseph Estrada, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) presidential bet, said they have lodged a continuing objection against the canvassing of the certificates of canvass for the president and the vice president on the ground that the COCs have not been digitally signed and that the joint canvass committee has not come out with a ruling on the issue of the lack of digital signatures. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100602hed1.html |
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