Manual counting delays canvassing at Makati polling center

Elections continued to work late into the night on Monday, May 14, 2018, at polling precincts at the Nicanor Garcia Sr. Elementary School in Makati. (Photo by ANTHONY Q. ESGUERRA / INQUIRER.net)

The canvassing of votes at a polling center in Makati is expected to be finished on early Tuesday morning.

As of 10:30 p.m. on Monday, the canvassing of votes from 19 polling precincts at Nicanor Garcia Sr. Elementary School has not yet started.

All precincts have finished tallying the votes and are now processing the reports and canvass.

One election teller told INQUIRER.net that the delay was because the votes were being counted manually.

“We’re not used to manual election anymore,” the teller said. “We missed the process in 2016 [national] elections.”

Security guards on campus said they had been asked by the school principal to extend their duty in anticipation of extension of canvassing.

Both teachers and security guards reported for duty as early as 6:00 a.m. /atm