WATCHER’S BRIEFING

MAY 09, 2022 LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS

 THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTIONS (Sunday, May 8,
2022)
* Go over the contents of the Poll watcher’s kit and
make sure that the supplies are complete. (i.e. Poll
watcher’s ID, paper, pen, appointment letter,
cellphone(fully charge).)

REMINDER: ELECTION DAY (Monday, May 09)

* Be at the polling place before 5:00 in the morning.
Voting period will run from 6am to 7pm. (be the first one
to vote)
* Present your appointment letter and Poll Watcher’s
ID to the chairman of the Board of Elections Inspector
(BEI). Your name will be recorded in the Minutes by the
BEI. Be friendly and courteous at all times!
  * Wear your ID at all times.
 * Don’t forget to VOTE anytime between 6:00
am to 7:00 pm. If you are within thirty (30)
REMINDER: meters from the polling place by 7:00 pm, you
shall be allowed to cast your vote.
 Remind your family and friends to vote early.
  You must stay in the area reserved for poll watchers
inside the polling place.
 Carefully observe the procedures being conducted i.e.
Voting, Counting and transmission of election results.
 Take photos of the proceedings, i.e. voting, counting and
RIGHTS AND transmission of election returns.

DUTIES AS A  NOTE:
POLL * DO NOT SPEAK LOUDLY AND CREATE NOISE THAT
WATCHER WOULD DISRUPT THE PROCEEDINGS

* DO NOT STAY IN PLACES RESERVED FOR VOTERS ONLY

* DO NOT TAKE PHOTOS OF THE ACCOMPLISHED
BALLOTS
* DO NOT TAKE PHOTOS OF THE VOTER’S RECEIPT
  You must file a protest for any violation of law
which you witnessed or believed to have been
committed by anyone inside the polling place
especially by the members of the BEI;
RIGHTS AND  All protesters must be logged and recorded by the
DUTIES AS A BEI in the Minutes.

POLL  You may obtain a certificate as to the filing of the

WATCHER protest and/resolution from the BEI

 You must stay behind the BEI Chairman in such a
way that you can read the election returns while the
latter is publicly announcing the results.
  NOTE:

THE VOTE
COUNTING  The VCM must be working properly
MACHINE AND  The ballot box must be empty, and sealed
THE BALLOT during the entire voting hours.
BOX  The VCM slots A and B must be sealed until
the end of the voting hours.(sd card)
  The temperature of the voter will be taken before
generating the polling place. If the voter has symptoms of
covid 19 virus, he/she shall vote at the designated
Isolation Polling Place (IPP).
 The voter must approach the members of the BEI. The
Chairman will provide the voter the ballot, ballot secrecy
folder and marking pen.

VOTING  The voter must cover his/her ballot with the ballot
secrecy folder and use the marking pen in shading the
circle on the ballot.
 The Voter shall insert the ballot in the VCM’s ballot entry
slot. The VCM should display the message – “YOUR
VOTE HAS BEEN CAST/ANG IYONG BOTO AY NAISAMA
NA/ YOUR VOTE RECEIPT IS BEING PRINTED / ANG
RESIBO NG IYONG BOTO AY PINI PRINT.
  The voter shall place his/her thumb marks on the
corresponding space on the Election Day
Computerized Voter’s List.

NOTE:
* THE VOTER MUST RETURN THE BALLOT
VOTING SECRECY FOLDER AND MARKING PEN TO THE BEI.
* THE VOTER MUST NOT TAKE PHOTOS OF THE
BALLOT AND THE VOTER’S RECEIPT.
* THE VOTER MUST NOT TAKE THE BALLOT AND
THE VOTER’S RECEIPT OUTSIDE OF THE POLLING
PLACE.
  If the Voter arises an objection that the Voter’s
Receipt did not reflect the names of the candidates
he or she voted for i.e. GOVERNOR – TUBBAN,
FERDINAND (PDP), you must advise the voter of
the following steps:

“There’s a  The voter must accomplish two (2) copies of the

Minutes of Personal Voting.
problem with  The minutes shall state: “That (name), (precinct

my voter’s no.), complained his/her voter’s receipt does not

reflect the votes he/she cast in his/her ballot.”

receipt”  The voters must write his/her full name at the back
of the voter’s receipt and affix his/her signature
thereto.
 The voter must execute an Affidavit. (Call the
coordinator so that they same be relayed to the legal
team.)
  Make sure that the voter has performed the above-
mentioned steps;
 See to it that the objections has been properly
noted or recorded in the Minutes.
IN CASE OF ANY
OBJECTIONS ABOUT  Ask for a copy of the Affidavit and request that the
THE IRREGULARITIES voter must have it notarized.
OF THE VOTER’S  Ask for the contact details of the voter.
RECEIPT, YOU
SHOULD:  Notify the assigned FBT lawyers about the
irregularities through the area coordinator.
 Send hard copies of the signed Affidavit to FBT legal
team.
  If the VCM rejects a ballot, the voter is allowed to
insert again the ballot (4 times). If the ballot rejects
it after the fourth try, the ballot will be given back
to the BEI Chairman.
 The BEI will mark the ballot “REJECTED” and the
THE BALLOT Chairman and all of the members of BEI will affix

WAS their signature on it.

 Rejected ballots shall be deposited to the rejected
REJECTED bin of the ballot box.
 NO REPLACEMENT BALLOT shall be issued to a
voter whose ballot was rejected by the VCM except
if it is INVALID BALLOT as stated in the display
message of the VCM.
  After the voting, the BEI Chairman shall record in
the minutes the quantity of unused ballots in the
presence of the other members of the BEI.
 The unused ballots shall be torn in half lengthwise.

DISPOSITION OF  The half of the torn ballots shall be placed in the

UNUSED envelope for Rejected Ballots. The envelope shall
be submitted to the Election Officer.
BALLOTS AND
 The other half of the torn ballots shall be placed in
ELECTION another envelope which shall be deposited inside
RETURNS the ballot box. This fact must be stated in the
Minutes.
  The VCM will print: eight (8) copies of the National and
Local Elections Returns.
 Ones the result is revealed, inform immediately the
headquarters of the result for the unofficial counting of
votes.
 A member of the BEI shall insert the USB transmitting
device to the USB port. The VCM will automatically send
VOTING IS election results to the TRANPARENCY SERVER.

CLOSED  The VCM will print the TRANSMISSION REPORT.

 Make sure that the election returns and the
transmission report match;
 The VCM will print twenty-two (22) copies of the National
and Local Election Returns.
 A member of the BEI shall print the STATISTICAL
REPORT AND AUDIT REPORT.
  The BEI shall individually fold the election returns.
The first eight (8) copies of the election returns shall
be sealed with serially numbered paper seals and
DISPOSITION placed in their respective envelopes.

OF ELECTION
RETURNS  The BEI and POLL WATCHERS shall affix their
signature of the paper seals and envelopes.
  The BEI “write protect” the two (2) SD cards installed
by pressing on the VCM Menu “election” then “ write
protect data.”
 The BEI remove the main SD card from slot “A” of the
VCM.

THE POLL  The BEI place the SD card inside the envelope provided

WATCHER
for the purpose and seal it.

MUST MAKE NOTE:

SURE THAT:  THE BACKUP SD CARD SHALL NOT BE REMOVED
FROM THE VCM.
 THE COVER OF SLOT “B” SHALL REMAIN LOCKED.
THANK YOU!!!