Election-related problems in the 2010 automated elections
- Delayed opening of several voting precincts due to technical glitches
- Poor crowd control (voters, watchers, observers, etc.)
- Voting place and procedure are not conducive to the disabled and senior citizens
- Intermittent/continued power failure in several areas
- Failure of elections in various localities due to the absence of Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) - e.g. Lanao del Sur
- Wrong delivery of ballots (Iloilo, Samar)
- Outdated voter's list
- Under-aged and flying voters
- Disenfranchisement of voters due to the failure to locate the their names in the official voter's list, or their designated precincts, and their impatience to long queues and disorganized voting procedure
- Inaccessible Comelec online precinct finder due to in the insufficient bandwidth of the Comelec website
- Improper voting procedure (e.g. non-application of the indelible ink)
- Lack of ballot secrecy folder in several voting precincts
- Long lines due to large volume of voters per clustered precincts (600-1000 voters), malfunctioning PCOS machines and poor automation familiarity
- Faulty PCOS machines (e.g. power button malfunction, initialization error, etc.)
- Limited back-up PCOS machines per city/municipality
- Damaged PCOS due to poor crowd control and security
- Overheating of PCOS machines
- Late delivery of PCOS machines and compact flashcards
- Defective compact flashcards
- Malfunctioning PCOS batteries
- Paper jam incidents
- Several ill-equipped technical support staff
- Spoiled/rejected ballot due to improper shading, unnecessary markings (ink, water, etc.), unintended crumpling/folding of ballots or for no apparent reason
- Pre-shaded ballots to favor particular candidates
- Vote buying incidents (for as low as P20 to as high as P5,000 per head)
- Election-related violence (e.g. assassination, bombing, ambush, harassment) - 80+ incidents
- Delayed transmission of voting results due to poor transmission signals and malfunctioning flashcards
Sources: personal field visits, TV, radio and online monitoring (GMA, ABS-CBN, ANC), reports from current and former students in UP.
