“I warned about this back in 2013 about the dangers of unbundling. I also made suggestions to compensate and to make sure the possible holes are plugged by Comelec,” Larrazabal said on Twitter.
“The International Certification Entity who reviewed the source code for the 2010, 2013 and 2016 elections was the same company. Comelec chose another company to do it for the 2019 elections,” Larrazabal said. “Why was the printing of the voter information sheet centralized in Metro Manila instead of the different provinces?” Larrazabal said.
Some voter registration verification machines also did not work properly and electoral boards have to resort to manually verifying voters’ names.were also found defective as compared to only 120 cards in 2016, Comelec Commissioner Rowena Guanzon said.