By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Voters queue inside Bayanihan |
More than 3,500 voters cast their ballots yesterday, Apr 21,
the ninth day of the month-long overseas voting for Filipinos in Hong Kong , amid a marked improvement in the weather.
Voters flocked to Bayanihan Centre in Kennedy Town
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| Morales at media briefing |
Consul General Tony Morales said at the daily media briefing
that the number of those who voted brought the total for the past nine days to
over 9,300, or roughly 10.65% of the 87,441 registered overseas voters in Hong Kong .
The other good news was, despite the heavy turnout, not one
of the vote-counting machines had broken down.
Despite this, Morales said they could not afford to be
complacent. “We have also reiterated our request for additional VCMs just in
case may mga breakdown because we expect the volume of voters to continue
rising.”
He said five VCMs are already on standby just in case the
need arises. Three of these were shipped last week by the Commission on
Elections in Manila
Morales said that throughout the day, 5 voters overvoted (chose
more than the 12 senatorial candidates, or one party-list) rendering their
ballots spoiled. One voter did not shade her candidates’ tick boxes before
feeding her ballot to the VCM, which also resulted in her ballot being declared
spoiled.
Two people who could not find their names on the list of
certified voters despite voting in the 2016 elections were allowed to vote
after the Comelec confirmed that their names were in its database.
Three persons with disabilities struggled to climb up
Bayanihan’s flight of stairs to the secretariat on the third floor where
Consulate officers requested the respective Special Board of Election
Inspectors to bring down their ballots and administer the vote to them.
At least one voter cast her ballot wearing a campaign
T-shirt for a certain candidate, but none of the volunteers or the election
supervisors appeared to have noticed the infraction.
Several senior citizens also came out to vote as the weather
improved significantly compared with yesterday’s heavy rain and thunderstorm
that prompted the Hong Kong Observatory to hoist the Red Rainstorm warning for
the first time this year.
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