Connectivity issues disrupt transmission of local poll results

Vote counting machines.
INQUIRER PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA

MANILA — The transmission of votes for local canvassing was bogged down by connectivity issues as some precincts failed to electronically transmit the election returns.

In Quezon City, the City Board of Canvassers had to manually upload hundreds of memory cards containing the ERs.

Ballots from a precinct in Barangay Old Balara had to be fed again into the vote-counting machine Tuesday afternoon as the canvassing system reflected zero vote from the transmission.

Some memory cards that were marked by the precinct board of election inspectors as transmitted apparently failed transmission to the canvassing and consolidation system.

As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, the CBOC was trying to retrieve 96 main memory cards from district election officers for manual uploading after the failed transmission.

Since the cards were marked as transmitted, those were already submitted to the reception and custody group and not delivered to the CBOC.

Jonaly Sabellano, CBOC chair, on Tuesday said they would wait for 100 percent transmission before proclaiming local winners.

“We do not want to disenfranchise any voter who took the time to vote,” Sabellano said.  SFM