The Senate will investigate the hundreds of defective vote counting machines (VCMs) on June 3.
The joint congressional oversight committee on the automated elections system chaired by reelected Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III will conduct the probe.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) tested the VCMs before the elections, but 400 to 600 out of the 85,000 units still malfunctioned on election day, which were three times higher than the 188 defective VCMs in 2016 elections, according to Comelec spokesman James Jimenez
Many SD cards also failed and even faulty marking pens.
“They should look at their tests, these could have been very shallow,” Pimentel said in an interview with DZMM.
This is already our fourth automated elections. Haven’t we learned yet?” he added.
