‘Little glitches’ reported during Eleksyon 2022, Año says

Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año on Monday said some glitches have been reported on Election Day.

Interviewed on Super Radyo dzBB, Año said that informed personnel cannot intervened with these issues unless requested by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

“May mga kaunting glitch na kaya namang ayusin ng Comelec. Ang atin namang mga unipormadong hanay ay hindi naman pupuwedeng pumasok dyan until i-request ng Comelec,” he said.

(There were little glitches that the Comelec can fix. Our uniformed personnel cannot enter until requested by the Comelec.)

In Calabarzon, many schools have reported issues with their vote counting machines in polling precincts. Some of the schools have requested repair or replacement for the malfunctioning VCMs.

As of 4 p.m., 14 schools reported VCM issues in Laguna, 12 in Quezon, 15 in Rizal, and two in Batangas.

Poll Commissioner George Garcia said voters have "no choice" but to leave their ballots to the members of the Electoral Board if the VCMs in their precincts are malfunctioning.

Garcia said more than 1,800 VCMs have malfunctioned, broken down into:

•   Paper jam - 940
•   Rejected ballots - 606
•   VCM scanner - 158
•   VCM printer not printing - 87
•   Not printing properly - 76

He said all these issues were "resolved." — BM, GMA News