TACLOBAN CITY- The Commission on Elections in the region is now ready to conduct a voters’ education campaign as the May 10 general elections is drawing near.
Lawyer Jose Nick Mendros, acting regional director of the Comelec, said that their information campaign will kick off in Biliran starting this Monday.
From there, the information caravan will be held in the remaining provinces in the region, Mendros said during the weekly media forum “Express It At The Park” held at the Leyte Park Hotel.
Mendros underscored that the main purpose of the voters’ education that the Comelec will be undertaking is the “value of the vote” one cast and not really on the automation process.
“The purpose of the voters’ education is to inculcate on the value of the votes and not on the automation,” he said.
The forthcoming May 10 election will see the country staging its first ever fully automated elections.
And during the information caravan to be conducted by the commission, how the counting machine, dubbed as precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machine, works will be demonstrated, the Comelec-8 director said.
Teachers who will be serving as members of the board of election inspectors will also be undergoing training, Mendros said.
Over 15,000 teachers are projected to serve as BEI during the May 10 elections.
It was learned from him that their office has already conducted an initial information drive before the members of the diocese of Borongan led by Monsignor Crispin Varquez last Jan.13.
For the region, there will be 5,323 PCOS machines that will be distributed to all polling precincts during the May 10 elections with each of the six provinces to be given a spare counting machine.
“And the number of ballot will be one is to one (voter). There will be no extra ballot,” Mendros said.
This early, Mendros assured the public that electoral fraud is far from happening considering that there will be less human intervention under the automated election system.
The Comelec regional director also said that to ensure that there will be a fair conduct of the elections, elections officers who have a relative up to fourth degree either by affinity or consanguinity will be reassigned to other areas.
An elections officer who also served for four years in the same locality will also be transferred to other area of assignment, Mendros said.
He, however, said that only “very few” will be affected by this impending movement of elections officers in the region. The region has about 143 elections officers.
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