Comelec addresses 17 M overvotes

The Commission on Elections has responded to various questions and concerns about the conduct of the recent elections, including reports of overvoting and mismatch, and the varying software used in the actual polls.

- By JOSEPH PEDRAJAS

In a statement, John Rex Laudiangco, Comelec spokesperson, clarified the case of alleged 17 million overvotes.

"The 17 million overvotes seems impossible if the total number of voters is 68 million. Because if it's really true, it will end up like one out of three Filipinos has overvotes for a certain position, which is statistically improbable based on our historical data from 2010 to 2022," Laudiangco said.

He said the 17 million overvotes represented the total number of overvotes on the ballots, and not the number of voters who committed overvoting.