The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will begin this weekend the investigation of the over 900 vote counting machines (VCMs) that encountered issues during the May 9 polls.
According to Commissioner George Garcia, the COMELEC Steering Committee headed by Commissioner Marlon Casquejo will meet on Saturday, May 14, with the Comelec Advisory Council (CAC) and the Project Management Office (PMO) to discuss the matter.
He said the holding of the meeting is in response to the call of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to investigate why the VCMs did not function during the elections.
“In view of the call of the President to investigate the defective VCMs during the election last Monday, May 9, Commissioner Casquejo, the head of the steering committee, will convene tomorrow (May 14), the CAC and the PMO to get to the bottom of this issue,” Garcia said in a Viber message to members of the media on Friday, May 13.
Earlier, Duterte urged the COMELEC to look into hundreds of VCMs that malfunctioned during the polls so as not to cast doubts on the integrity of the election results.PNA
