Only one PCOS machine for voters’ educ drive in Region 10

February 17, 2010

By Lizanilla J. Amarga

The regional office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec-10) only has one election machine to be used for its Automated Election System (AES) voters’ education drives all over the region.

In an interview, Comelec-10 regional director Atty. Renato Magbutay said they have already started out in conducting the voters’ education campaign even going down to the barangay-to-barangay level.

However, he admitted that they are using only one election machine or Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) to be shared by the provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Lanao del Norte as well as the two highly urbanized cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan.

“Isa lang (PCOS) for now for the entire region,” he told reporters during an interview at Camp Alagar , Lapasan this city.

When pressed on whether there are any plans to send over more PCOS for the voters’ education training, Magbutay answered that this might be possible.

“Pero siguro pagmalapit na ang eleksyon,” he said.

In a separate interviews, Comelec-Misamis Oriental election supervisor Atty. Carlito Ravelo and Comelec-Cagayan de Oro election officer Atty. Gina Zayas-Sabio revealed that there is only one PCOS being taken around the region to show voters how to cast their votes during this year’s automated election.

They said they have to share the one PCOS machine with the other provinces and cities that are scheduled to have a voters’ education seminar in their area.

Ravelo said the voters’ education campaigns even sometimes include having the participants practice how to shade some sample ballots and having them feed it to the PCOS machine.

He added that, during PCOS demonstrations, the Comelec officials assigned to demonstrate would show that the PCOS machine would not accept ballots that are fake, tampered, lacked the security features or are not the ones it was programmed to receive.

As of April 2009 alone, Comelec-10 already reported that there are now 2,082,254 registered voters in the entire Northern Mindanao .

Misamis Oriental has the highest number of registered voters with 695,420, followed by Bukidnon, 658,627, Lanao del Norte, 461,493, Misamis Occidental, 298,846, and Camiguin, 53,379 voters.

The most number of new registrants is also recorded in Misamis Orriental with 38,029, followed by Bukidnon, 37,885, Lanao del Norte, 20,350, Misamis Occidental, 16,807 and Camiguin, 3,485 registrants.

Magbutay also said the region has 13,857 established and 4,327 clustered precincts in its 2,022 barangays from 93 municipalities and cities.

The most number of established precincts is still in Misamis Orriental with 4,722 followed by Bukidnon, 4,336, Lanao del Norte, 3,243, Misamis Occidental, 2,091, and lowest in Camiguin, 365 precincts.

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