This morning, many already rushed to the polling precincts to vote for the first ever National Automated Election in the Philippines. Many of them too returned with complaints: not finding their names on the voters’ lists, waiting for long lines to vote, finding their ballots not accepted by the PCOS machine.
If you have not voted yet, you may want to take these suggestions before you head to the polling precincts:
- Prepare your candidates list and don’t forget to bring this list with you to the precinct. This way, you won’t have to spend so much time inside the precinct going over the list of candidates and deciding which ones to choose.
- Be prepared to wait. In many precincts in Marikina, the BEI provides number for voters to accommodate them to make the process systematic. The problem is the number goes to up to 500.
- Bring water, biscuits, and towels to be comfortable while waiting.
- Try to be calm and see the BEI members as victims of circumstances too. Do not abash the BEI for automation faults as they are not prepared for such problems also by COMELEC.
- Locate your precinct numbers through PPCRV volunteers’ desks. Hopefully, your name will be there. If not found, there are COMELEC volunteers around and you may also report such to ABS-CBN and GMA7 hotlines.
- Don’t go beyond 6:00PM to vote. While there are chances the election will extend because of the miscalculations made by COMELEC (60 persons per hour), the 6PM deadline may still be imposed and you will lose your voting power for getting there late.
- Senior citizens and pregnant women are priority for voting, accept this fact.
Let us all pray together to make this election peaceful and orderly.
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