As of 8 p.m. Friday night, a total of 120,128 overseas votes from 130 countries and local absentee voters had been canvassed by the congressional board of canvassers.
As of 8 p.m. Friday night, a total of 120,128 overseas votes from 130 countries and local absentee voters had been canvassed by the congressional board of canvassers.
The Liberal Party’s Sen. Benigno Aquino III got 61,742, or 51.36 percent of the votes counted, followed by Gilbert Teodoro (16,574), Joseph Estrada (13,982), Sen. Manuel Villar (11,421), Eddie Villanueva (10,683), Sen. Richard Gordon (5,052), JC de los Reyes (203), Sen. Jamby Madrigal (207), Nicanor Perlas (190), and Vetallano Acosta (74).
A total of 119,494 votes were canvassed for vice president, with the LP’s Sen. Manuel Roxas II getting 63,582, or 53.2 percent of the votes counted, followed by Jejomar Binay (26,385), Loren Legarda (10,985), Bayani Fernando (8,586), Perfecto Yasay Jr. (6,718), Edu Manzano (2,416), Jay Sonza (611), and Dominador Chipeco (211).
The biggest of the votes canvassed last night were from local absentee voters (18,826), the United States (11,825), the United Arab Emirates (7,545), Kuwait (5,139), Italy (5,010), Canada (3,321), and Saipan (3,211). Nearly a dozen countries from Africa and the Caribbean registered zero to one vote.
The votes from Hong Kong and Singapore, which both have large Filipino communities, were not counted as they will be included in the canvass of electronic returns.
The canvass committee adjourned at 8:50 p.m. after canvassing 131 certificates of canvass (CoCs). This means that 147 out of the 278 CoCs are still left to be canvassed. Congress will resume canvassing on Monday with a slight break at 4 p.m. when the House will open its session and promptly close to continue with the national count.
Showing posts with label Absentee Voting. Show all posts
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Binay belittles Roxas lead in OAV
Finally, after 1-and-a-half session days worth of debate riddled with late beginnings and several breaks, the joint congressional canvass committee on Thursday shut up and actually did their main job of canvassing the votes for president and vice president.
This however didn’t come without a compromise---they decided to canvass first the certificates of canvass where elections were held manually without the use of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines---mostly from the overseas and some local absentee voting, representing around 100 of the 278 Certificates of Canvass (COCs), which could be worth around half a million votes.
All but 2 COCs from the Overseas Absentee Voting were done manually---only overseas Filipin workers (OFWs) in Singapore and Hong Kong got to use PCOS machines.
The compromise came after around 4 hours of debates on security features of the automated election system.
At 6: 52 pm, Compostela Valley Congressman Manuel "Way Kurat' Zamora reprised his 2004 role of carrying the ballot box with COCs from the shelves in the holding area to the examination table where the committee members and watchers and lawyers of the candidates had a chance to examine the documents.
The process almost stalled again after some candidates’ lawyers protested the absence of Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel who will authenticate the signatures of ambassadors or consuls who prepared the COCs.
A bolt cutter was used to cut the 3 padlocks and heavy sealing of the ballot boxes.
Ballot boxes are being opened in the order they were received.
First to be canvassed were the ballot boxes from Laos, Guam, Brunei and Papua New Guinea and Thailand
The Liberal Party tandem of Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas led the initial canvass, prompting the camp of Roxas’ chief rival, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay to stress that while they expect Roxas to lead the OAV round, it only represents a small posrtion of the votes cast. The OAV results have already been reported in media.
“We expect Mar Roxas to lead," Binay said. "But we must remember that total registered OAV voters is around 560,000 (around 1% of total registered voters) with initial reports of only 25-30% turnout.”
This however didn’t come without a compromise---they decided to canvass first the certificates of canvass where elections were held manually without the use of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines---mostly from the overseas and some local absentee voting, representing around 100 of the 278 Certificates of Canvass (COCs), which could be worth around half a million votes.
All but 2 COCs from the Overseas Absentee Voting were done manually---only overseas Filipin workers (OFWs) in Singapore and Hong Kong got to use PCOS machines.
The compromise came after around 4 hours of debates on security features of the automated election system.
At 6: 52 pm, Compostela Valley Congressman Manuel "Way Kurat' Zamora reprised his 2004 role of carrying the ballot box with COCs from the shelves in the holding area to the examination table where the committee members and watchers and lawyers of the candidates had a chance to examine the documents.
The process almost stalled again after some candidates’ lawyers protested the absence of Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel who will authenticate the signatures of ambassadors or consuls who prepared the COCs.
A bolt cutter was used to cut the 3 padlocks and heavy sealing of the ballot boxes.
Ballot boxes are being opened in the order they were received.
First to be canvassed were the ballot boxes from Laos, Guam, Brunei and Papua New Guinea and Thailand
The Liberal Party tandem of Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas led the initial canvass, prompting the camp of Roxas’ chief rival, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay to stress that while they expect Roxas to lead the OAV round, it only represents a small posrtion of the votes cast. The OAV results have already been reported in media.
“We expect Mar Roxas to lead," Binay said. "But we must remember that total registered OAV voters is around 560,000 (around 1% of total registered voters) with initial reports of only 25-30% turnout.”
Monday, May 10, 2010
Live stream of the counting of votes at the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles, California
Live stream of the counting of votes at the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Glitch mars absentee vote in 2 HK precincts
Glitches temporarily stalled the second day of voting for overseas Filipinos in Hong Kong Sunday, raising fears that the same could happen on a larger scale in the May 10 nationwide polls.
A TV Patrol World report said precinct count optical scan machines deployed in Precincts 15 and 16 in Hong Kong refused to accept filled-up ballots of some overseas workers. Two replacement machines that were on standby also failed to accept the ballots despite repeated tries by Commission on Elections personnel.
The glitches delayed voting at the 2 precincts for almost an hour until the Comelec decided to let the voters transfer to a different precinct.
Officials from Comelec and poll automation supplier Smartmatic-TIM said the ballots seemed to have been affected by the airconditioning while the PCOS machines also seemed to have been affected by humidity inside the precinct.
"A window was left open so one machine did not work. That's why we have contingency plans and backup plans," Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal told reporters.
After a few minutes, the first PCOS machine started working properly and started accepting the ballots.
Officials said if the PCOS machines continued to malfunction, voters would be allowed to continue filling up ballots before these are scanned in PCOS machines in other voting precincts.
The Department of Foreign Affairs earlier said a total of 4,141 Filipino overseas absentee voters already cast their ballots after the first day of voting in the different Philippine Embassies and Consulates General around the world.
As of 11:20 a.m., the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong had the most number of ballots cast with 997, followed by the Philippine Embassy in London (558), and the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh (266).
Rounding out the top 10 in terms of voter turn-out are: the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago (242); the Philippine Embassy in Singapore (218), the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah (180), the Philippine Embassy in Berlin (144), the Philippine Embassy in Madrid (135), the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok (118), and the Philippine Consulate General in Barcelona (117).
The first day of the overseas voting went smoothly and orderly in most, if not all, of the overseas precincts monitored by the DFA Overseas Absentee Voting Secretariat.
In a report to the DFA, Consul General to Hong Kong Claro Cristobal said that the first-ever elections under the new Automated Election System (AES) began in Hong Kong with an ecumenical prayer service followed by the blessing of all ten rooms where the 20 precinct clusters at the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center are located.
The precincts opened at exactly 8 a.m. Voters started the process of voting by checking with the bank of seven computerized voter search terminals manned by volunteers to locate their respective precincts. As voters made their way to their precincts on the upper floors of the voting center, marshals were on hand to provide assistance.
The first Filipino to vote in Hong Kong was overseas Filipino worker Rowena dela Cruz. It took her roughly one-and-a-half minutes to complete the process of voting for a president, a vice president, 12 senators and a party-list organization.
Seventeen would-be voters were unable to find their names on the Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters (CLOAV). The helpdesk constituted by the Consulate General immediately informed the Commission on Elections (Comelec) about these cases.
Voting in Hong Kong will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Mondays to Fridays, and 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Hong Kong statutory holidays until May 10.
A TV Patrol World report said precinct count optical scan machines deployed in Precincts 15 and 16 in Hong Kong refused to accept filled-up ballots of some overseas workers. Two replacement machines that were on standby also failed to accept the ballots despite repeated tries by Commission on Elections personnel.
The glitches delayed voting at the 2 precincts for almost an hour until the Comelec decided to let the voters transfer to a different precinct.
Officials from Comelec and poll automation supplier Smartmatic-TIM said the ballots seemed to have been affected by the airconditioning while the PCOS machines also seemed to have been affected by humidity inside the precinct.
"A window was left open so one machine did not work. That's why we have contingency plans and backup plans," Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal told reporters.
After a few minutes, the first PCOS machine started working properly and started accepting the ballots.
Officials said if the PCOS machines continued to malfunction, voters would be allowed to continue filling up ballots before these are scanned in PCOS machines in other voting precincts.
The Department of Foreign Affairs earlier said a total of 4,141 Filipino overseas absentee voters already cast their ballots after the first day of voting in the different Philippine Embassies and Consulates General around the world.
As of 11:20 a.m., the Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong had the most number of ballots cast with 997, followed by the Philippine Embassy in London (558), and the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh (266).
Rounding out the top 10 in terms of voter turn-out are: the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago (242); the Philippine Embassy in Singapore (218), the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah (180), the Philippine Embassy in Berlin (144), the Philippine Embassy in Madrid (135), the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok (118), and the Philippine Consulate General in Barcelona (117).
The first day of the overseas voting went smoothly and orderly in most, if not all, of the overseas precincts monitored by the DFA Overseas Absentee Voting Secretariat.
In a report to the DFA, Consul General to Hong Kong Claro Cristobal said that the first-ever elections under the new Automated Election System (AES) began in Hong Kong with an ecumenical prayer service followed by the blessing of all ten rooms where the 20 precinct clusters at the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center are located.
The precincts opened at exactly 8 a.m. Voters started the process of voting by checking with the bank of seven computerized voter search terminals manned by volunteers to locate their respective precincts. As voters made their way to their precincts on the upper floors of the voting center, marshals were on hand to provide assistance.
The first Filipino to vote in Hong Kong was overseas Filipino worker Rowena dela Cruz. It took her roughly one-and-a-half minutes to complete the process of voting for a president, a vice president, 12 senators and a party-list organization.
Seventeen would-be voters were unable to find their names on the Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters (CLOAV). The helpdesk constituted by the Consulate General immediately informed the Commission on Elections (Comelec) about these cases.
Voting in Hong Kong will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Mondays to Fridays, and 8:00 am to 6:00 pm on Saturdays, Sundays and Hong Kong statutory holidays until May 10.
First vote cast in Hong Kong goes to Villar
The first official votes fed into the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) in Hong Kong went to members of the Nacionalista Party (NP), led by its standard-bearer, Sen. Manuel "Manny" Villar Jr.
ABS-CBN correspondent Michael Vincent reported that the first votes were cast by Rowena dela Cruz, member of a migrant workers' group Migrante, at the Bayanihan Kennedy Center in Hong Kong.
Vincent said that according to Dela Cruz, he voted Villar for president and Sen. Loren Legarda for vice-president.
Dela Cruz told ABS-CBN's correspondent in Hong Kong that she voted Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza for senators. Both candidates are also running under the NP ticket.
Vincent said voting started at the Bayanihan Kennedy Center around 7 a.m..
He said several overseas Filipino workers stayed overnight at the center to make sure that they would be the first ones to participate in the Philippines' first automated elections.
Vincent said around 3,000 Filipinos are expected to troop to the center to cast their votes on Sunday.
He said members of the Philippine consulate in Hong Kong, led by Consul General Claro Cristobal, have also cast their votes.
The month-long overseas absentee voting (OAV) officially started on Saturday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expecting more than half a million Filipinos abroad to participate in the OAV.
Those in Hong Kong and Singapore would be the only overseas Filipinos who will be able to use the PCOS machines. There are more than 126,000 Filipino voters in the 2 countries.
ABS-CBN correspondent Michael Vincent reported that the first votes were cast by Rowena dela Cruz, member of a migrant workers' group Migrante, at the Bayanihan Kennedy Center in Hong Kong.
Vincent said that according to Dela Cruz, he voted Villar for president and Sen. Loren Legarda for vice-president.
Dela Cruz told ABS-CBN's correspondent in Hong Kong that she voted Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza for senators. Both candidates are also running under the NP ticket.
Vincent said voting started at the Bayanihan Kennedy Center around 7 a.m..
He said several overseas Filipino workers stayed overnight at the center to make sure that they would be the first ones to participate in the Philippines' first automated elections.
Vincent said around 3,000 Filipinos are expected to troop to the center to cast their votes on Sunday.
He said members of the Philippine consulate in Hong Kong, led by Consul General Claro Cristobal, have also cast their votes.
The month-long overseas absentee voting (OAV) officially started on Saturday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expecting more than half a million Filipinos abroad to participate in the OAV.
Those in Hong Kong and Singapore would be the only overseas Filipinos who will be able to use the PCOS machines. There are more than 126,000 Filipino voters in the 2 countries.
Low turnout marks 1st day of OAV polls in HK
Overseas Filipinos began to cast their votes on the first day of the overseas absentee voting for the presidential polls, Saturday in Hong Kong.
ABS-CBN News correspondent Ina Reformina reported that the automated absentee voting in Hong Kong opened at around 8 a.m. at the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center, where all the 20 clustered precincts are situated.
The turnout on Saturday morning was quite low. The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong said it expecting this since most Filipinos' day-off is every Sunday.
The consulate said it is prepared for a higher turnout on Sunday, and has set up a system to ensure that voting is conducted smoothly.
Each precinct was blessed by priests prior to the start of the absentee voting in Hong Kong.
“Assistance is given to OFWs the moment they arrived at the center, from the verification of their precinct up to actual voting,” Reformina reported.
She added that no glitch was so far reported as far as the Precinct Optical Scan (PCOS) machines are concerned. However, the usual problem of not finding names on the voters' list still persists.
“Quite a handful of voters, who claimed they voted in the previous elections, could not find their names on the list,” Reformina said.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will verify with Comelec-Manila on the status of voters who still hope their problems can be addressed.
First voter
Radio dzMM’s Michael Vincent earlier reported that the first voter in Hong Kong was domestic helper Rowena Dela Cruz, a member of migrant workers’ group, Migrante.
Ed Malaya, spokesperson the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Dela Cruz camped out at the center since Friday afternoon.
Vincent said Dela Cruz voted Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar for president and Sen. Loren Legarda for vice-president. She also voted for Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza for senators.
Dela Cruz described the new system of voting as easy, except that care must be given in shading the oval so as not to waste a single vote.
There are over 95,000 voters in Hong Kong and 31,000 in Singapore. The two countries will experience the automated polls. The rest will use either personal or postal voting.
In Palau, Consul Vicente Bandillo of the Philippine embassy in Koror said Noel Reyes, 36, was its first voter.
Reyes is a teacher at the Palau High School. He wore a white t-shirt which bore the phrase “Ako ang Simula”.
Kontra Daya reports harassment, intimidation
Meanwhile, election watchdog Kontra Daya on Saturday noted intimidation and harassment as well as glitches a few hours after the polls opened in Hong Kong.
Cynthia Abdon-Tellez, chairperson of Gabriela Women’s Party in Hong Kong said Vice Consul Joy Banagodos allegedly harassed Gabriela members and supporters for distributing leaflets and hanging banners outside the election venue.
Tellez said the harassment was also experienced by Norman Uy Carnay of Bayan-HK.
"Since 2004, this issue has already been decided by the COMELEC, and it has always been clear that since the outside of the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center is no longer the jurisdiction of the Philippines, leafleting (sic) and banners cannot be prohibited. Such was also affirmed by Consul General Claro Cristobal in a meeting about poll watching just last Tuesday, April 6. Even after asserting this, Vice Consul Banagodos went as far as ridiculously measuring distances of banners and campaigners from the Bayanihan’s gates,” Carnay said.
Tellez also said that they have gathered more than 140 names of voters whose names were discovered to have been deleted or were not at all included in the Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters or CLOAV.
The group also complained about the accreditation of watchers, wherein a watcher had to report first to the OAV Secretariat before going to their assigned clustered precincts.
“Because shifting of watchers occurs roughly at the same time, the longer time to complete the additional accreditation measures results in a vacuum in the clustered precincts. This basically defeats the purpose of poll watching, which is to observe the whole conduct of the elections. We urge the OAV secretariat and the Philippine consulate general to consider a serious review of this new system they created,” she said.
ABS-CBN News correspondent Ina Reformina reported that the automated absentee voting in Hong Kong opened at around 8 a.m. at the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center, where all the 20 clustered precincts are situated.
The turnout on Saturday morning was quite low. The Philippine consulate in Hong Kong said it expecting this since most Filipinos' day-off is every Sunday.
The consulate said it is prepared for a higher turnout on Sunday, and has set up a system to ensure that voting is conducted smoothly.
Each precinct was blessed by priests prior to the start of the absentee voting in Hong Kong.
“Assistance is given to OFWs the moment they arrived at the center, from the verification of their precinct up to actual voting,” Reformina reported.
She added that no glitch was so far reported as far as the Precinct Optical Scan (PCOS) machines are concerned. However, the usual problem of not finding names on the voters' list still persists.
“Quite a handful of voters, who claimed they voted in the previous elections, could not find their names on the list,” Reformina said.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will verify with Comelec-Manila on the status of voters who still hope their problems can be addressed.
First voter
Radio dzMM’s Michael Vincent earlier reported that the first voter in Hong Kong was domestic helper Rowena Dela Cruz, a member of migrant workers’ group, Migrante.
Ed Malaya, spokesperson the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Dela Cruz camped out at the center since Friday afternoon.
Vincent said Dela Cruz voted Sen. Manuel “Manny” Villar for president and Sen. Loren Legarda for vice-president. She also voted for Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza for senators.
Dela Cruz described the new system of voting as easy, except that care must be given in shading the oval so as not to waste a single vote.
There are over 95,000 voters in Hong Kong and 31,000 in Singapore. The two countries will experience the automated polls. The rest will use either personal or postal voting.
In Palau, Consul Vicente Bandillo of the Philippine embassy in Koror said Noel Reyes, 36, was its first voter.
Reyes is a teacher at the Palau High School. He wore a white t-shirt which bore the phrase “Ako ang Simula”.
Kontra Daya reports harassment, intimidation
Meanwhile, election watchdog Kontra Daya on Saturday noted intimidation and harassment as well as glitches a few hours after the polls opened in Hong Kong.
Cynthia Abdon-Tellez, chairperson of Gabriela Women’s Party in Hong Kong said Vice Consul Joy Banagodos allegedly harassed Gabriela members and supporters for distributing leaflets and hanging banners outside the election venue.
Tellez said the harassment was also experienced by Norman Uy Carnay of Bayan-HK.
"Since 2004, this issue has already been decided by the COMELEC, and it has always been clear that since the outside of the Bayanihan Kennedy Town Center is no longer the jurisdiction of the Philippines, leafleting (sic) and banners cannot be prohibited. Such was also affirmed by Consul General Claro Cristobal in a meeting about poll watching just last Tuesday, April 6. Even after asserting this, Vice Consul Banagodos went as far as ridiculously measuring distances of banners and campaigners from the Bayanihan’s gates,” Carnay said.
Tellez also said that they have gathered more than 140 names of voters whose names were discovered to have been deleted or were not at all included in the Certified List of Overseas Absentee Voters or CLOAV.
The group also complained about the accreditation of watchers, wherein a watcher had to report first to the OAV Secretariat before going to their assigned clustered precincts.
“Because shifting of watchers occurs roughly at the same time, the longer time to complete the additional accreditation measures results in a vacuum in the clustered precincts. This basically defeats the purpose of poll watching, which is to observe the whole conduct of the elections. We urge the OAV secretariat and the Philippine consulate general to consider a serious review of this new system they created,” she said.
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