Chatto leads unofficial tally for Governor
Incumbent governor Edgar Chatto leads the unofficial tally for Governor of Bohol.
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Firemen extinguish grass fire on Election Day
Firemen arrived and extinguished a small grass fire earlier today at Baguio Drive ab about 10:55AM. Residents near the area had tried to extinguish the fire using pails of water. A PPCRV Poll Watcher passed by the area and reported the incident to TaRSIER 117. The emergency hotline operator dispatched the fire department to the scene.
The portion where the grass fire occurred is used as storage are for spare concrete electric poles of Bohol Light Company, Inc.
No damage to property has been reported although the electric poles may be compromised due to the heat sudden cooling as the fire was extinguished.
Elections 2016 – Live Coverage
5:40PM. Around 2% of Election Returns have been submitted to COMELEC central server already.
Election returns have started to be uploaded from the voting precincts.
5:00PM. Voting will start to officially close.
Hand crafted fans selling fast at Dao Elementary School
City Central School precincts have short lines already at about 12:00nn
At Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School
At Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School
At Tagbilaran City Central Elementary School
Short lines at Booy Elementary school at around 11:45AM
Voters at Dao Elementary School have a hard time searching for their names on poorly printed lists.
Ubujan Elementary school queue efficient at 11:00AM
Ubujan Elementary school queue efficient at 11:00AM
Mangga Elementary school queues were slow moving at 11:00AM
Short lines at Booy Elementary school at around 11:45AM
Voters at Dao Elementary School brave the sun and humidity as they line up to vote.
03:00 PM – Many precincts in various baranggays in Tagbilaran City have completed the voting process for majority of the voters assigned to their precincts. COMELECT website now up.
12:00 NN – COMELEC Website still down.
10:30 AM – Voters at Dao Elementary School complain of poor quality of the printed list of voters. The names are hard to read, especially for those with eyesight issues.
One voter gave up looking for his name and went home after a few attempts to search for his name.
10:00 AM – Voters patiently waiting in line. Senior Citizens, pregnant women, PWDs and other people with special needs were given priority with their own queue.
Voters line up at San Isidro Elementary school, Tagbilaran City
Queue of voters at San Isidro Elementary School, Tagbilaran City
9:00AM – Lines have become longer as more voters arrive in droves.
Long lines at Dampas Elementary School
Long lines at Dampas Elementary School.
Bohol News Daily Elections 2016 Live Coverage
8:00AM – Long lines and slow voting process observed in various poll precincts. So far no reports reached Bohol News Daily on errors or issues with vote results on the receipts.
7:00AM – Voters at Dampas District precincts report that the line is already long
6:00AM – Voting precincts open and started accepting voters.
– COMELEC website bogs down. It currently shows blank page.
Go out and vote!
By: Jerome Auza
In all the elections since I was old enough to understand politics, I have never seen so much divisiveness among the Filipinos during an election. I saw arguements with lawyers, priests, professionals of various backgrounds for and against certain candidates. Social media has made all the bickering even more intense.
One thing for sure, there is already a change that I can observe. For the first time, I have heard many people who say that the expected “uwan-uwan”, “inangayan” and other names we sugarcoat the act of vote buying, will not affect their choice of candidates.
I have seen on social media several posts that shame candidates who still do vote buying. At the same time, there is one national candidate who is keen on not buying votes. Indeed, I can say that the Filipino voters have matured already and have felt that they can control the destiny of our country through their sacred vote.
In Talibon Diocese, the clergy is actively campaigning against vote buying and this is something new because in the past, we only hear it in the sermons but now, you can see posters with strongly worded messages reminding the people about the sanctity of their vote. For sure there are many more parishes and dioceses throughout the country that are doing the same.
I envision a Philippines in the near future where vote buying will become a thing of the past. My hope is that the Filipino people will no longer need to accept offers of vote buying because they don’t need to accept the small amount of money because they have something to eat anyway every day.
On May 9, let us all go out and vote. Let us choose the leaders that we think can lead this country to build on the gains already achieved by the previous administrations while fixing what still needs fixing. Let us vote because we sincerely believe that they are the right candidates rather than because we received “inangayan” from these candidates.
Let us also pray for a peaceful elections and also for peaceful turn-over to the next administration. May our heated debates on Facebook be put behind after May 9. Let us all unite together as a country, no matter what our beliefs, origins, religion, affiliation or opinion.
But the work doesn’t end when the elected officials are declared. It is just the beginning. Let us all contribute to the improvement of our nation in our own small ways. Let us all work for peace and hopefully end the conflict that has been there for decades.
Lastly, let us all remain vigilant against abuses of government and do our part in order to make this country even better.
PPCRV Volunteers Perform Dry Run of Parallel Count System
PPCRV volunteers led by Fr. Felix Warli Salise performed a dry run of the parallel count system for Bohol local election results on May 7, 2016 at the CAD Laboratory at the Holy Name University in Dampas, Tagbilaran City. The parallel count system is developed and maintained by volunteer developers and trainees from Auza.Net.
There were more than 30 volunteers who showed up for the dry run and the organizers are expecting more volunteers help ensure the sanctity of the electoral process. On May 9, the volunteers are expected to start to encode the results from the printed election returns from each precinct all over the province of Bohol. They may need to work for about a week or until the last available election return is retrieved.
The system was developed during the 2013 elections by volunteer developers and was updated to accommodate the changes required for the 2016 elections. Auza.Net technology consultant Jerome Auza hopes to be able to have access to the per precinct data from the transparency server provided by COMELEC on May 9 onward. This is in order to to have a closed loop comparison between the printed election returns and the transmitted data to COMELEC. This way, PPCRV will be able to conclude that the data transmitted are exactly the same as that on the election returns.
The PPCRV helps to prevent election fraud by making sure that the tally at the municipal, district, provincial and national levels match with what is reported by COMELEC.
However, this process cannot detect fraud if the results are pre-programmed on the vote counting machines. To detect this kind of fraud, the random manual count audit is performed. In order for the audit to be effective, the precincts to be selected for audit must be selected using a process that can be observed by PPCRV, NAMFREL and the representatives of the political parties. The selection should also be done after the election returns are transmitted to COMELEC so that there is no more opportunity to change the results.
