May 12, 2025

For the first four hours of the voting period, Vote Report PH and Kontra Daya already received verified reports regarding technical issues with the ACMs and other election-related problems. With priority voters expected to make up the majority of voters during the early hours of election day. Vote Report PH has received reports around Metro Manila that some have been assigned to inaccessible election precincts (i.e. second floor of the building). The group also received reports of technical issues with ACMs, causing delays at the various precincts. Over sensitive ACM logs ballots as overvotes, nullifies votesSome voters have also complained that despite carefully shading within the circle and the right number of allowable candidates, the over sensitivity of machines have mistakenly tagged some ballots as overvoting. This nullifies votes on the ballot.“ The Comelec should immediately come up with a resolution for these incidents because this clearly disenfranchises votes. It’s unfair for voters who made the effort to go to their precincts early only for their votes to be nullified,” said Prof. Danilo Arao, convenor of Kontra Daya.###