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The Commission on Elections admitted more problems in the automated election system as it has less than 3 months to prepare for the May 9 elections. Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said it feels like being a patient who underwent an operation – and found other ailments while in the operating room. One of the new major problems afflicts the vote-counting machines, which reject 1-2% of ballot papers. If the vote-counting machines rejected 2% of the actual ballots on election day, that would mean 1.14 million ballots going to waste. The Comelec plans to print 57 million ballots for the May polls.
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