00:00The Commission on Elections rejected the new mode of printing pre-shaded balotas.
00:06According to the Commission, this is impossible to happen due to manual and machine verification.
00:11This is what Luisa Erispe reported.
00:15The Commission on Elections suggested that there is a possibility that this will happen in the elections,
00:19especially the new mode of printing of some groups that have invisible shades of the balotas being printed.
00:27According to Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia,
00:30it is impossible for the balotas to be printed with invisible shades
00:34due to manual and machine verification.
00:39You are just being fooled by the so-called invisible markings.
00:44When they gave up on the machine, they knew that they cannot do anything about it.
00:49They are not on paper and they say that they have secret markings.
00:53How will they do that while our printing of balotas is so guarded?
00:57Comelec also showed that the Ultimo Smudge, Punit, or even additional markings on the print do not pass the verification.
01:05I am here at the Amoranto Sports Complex where the verification of balotas is being done.
01:11There is a sample of a balota that was rejected through manual verification.
01:16Here, you can see that the balota is almost torn.
01:21It is possible that the machine did not read it.
01:24That is why it is being rejected through manual verification.
01:27There is also another balota that was rejected through manual verification.
01:31This is because you can see that there is smudge or extra ink on the print of the balotas.
01:38According to the Commission on Elections, if these markings are being rejected through manual verification,
01:44it is impossible to have pre-shaded balotas
01:49because they are doing it through manual verification to make sure that our balotas are good balotas to be used in elections.
01:57Comelec also said that the machine is also being rejected if the secret markings put by the National Printing Office are not being read.
02:05That is why it is impossible to have pre-shaded balotas.
02:08For those who say that the machine is being cheated or that automated counting machines are being opened,
02:14it means that there is a vote inside the machine.
02:17The Commission will make sure that in the final testing and sealing,
02:20there is not a single vote in the flash drive of the machines.
02:24When it comes to the election day, tomorrow, there will be a vote.
02:29Watchers are questioning why there is a vote.
02:33Meanwhile, it should be zero.
02:35That is the reason.
02:36It should be re-zeroed by the teachers in the final testing and sealing.
02:41Comelec is now back to inventing different kinds of modes.
02:46They will make sure that someone will be caught and will be jailed for doing this.
02:50Meanwhile, Comelec is now speeding up the verification of balotas
02:54so that they can reach the target after the printing of April 14.
02:58Comelec has added more than 200 people to do manual verification.
03:03From the previous 600,000, Comelec has already verified 1 million balotas per day.
03:09As of now, 3 to 4 million have already passed the verification of balotas.
03:14They have already printed 27 million balotas.
03:17The number of rejected balotas is not that much.
03:20The limited number of rejected balotas that we have seen are machine-rejected balotas.
03:25There are none that can be seen in the manual verification.
03:30Even if there is a smudge line that is black,
03:34when you look at it, it doesn't seem to be visible.
03:37Even though Dr. Willie Ong has already announced that he will withdraw from running for Senator in the election,
03:43Comelec assured that this will not affect the printing of balotas.
03:47Like Wilbert Lee, Stray Votes will also be Ong's vote.
03:51For now, it is not yet formal that Ong will withdraw from Comelec.
03:54But even if it is not personal to submit his document,
03:57it will still be accepted by the commission.
03:59Luisa Erispe for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
