VCMs at Cebu City Hall

By: Julit C. Jainar - 8 years ago

BALLOT BOX INVENTORY/MAY 19, 2016: Representatives from the Comelec, PNP and the City Hall treasury office examine the padlocks while conducting an inventory of the ballot boxes containing the official ballots used during May 9, 2016 election before boarding on a container van for salf keeping.(CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA)

Police officers inspect the vote-counting machines at City Hall. (CDN PHOTO / JUNJIE MENDOZA)

SOME 1,289 vote-counting machines (VCMs) used in Cebu City during the May 9 elections were placed inside container vans at Cebu City Hall grounds yesterday.

“They were placed here at the City Hall grounds. Isn’t it stated in the law that candidates have until May 20 to file a protest?” Cebu City Treasurer Diwa Cuevas said.

The vans cannot be opened without the presence of representatives of the three political parties.

Cuevas said policemen will watch over the container vans. Each 20-footer container van can store 127 VCMs, Cuevas said.