section_path: Issues/Voting issues
section_name: Voting issues
paragraph_text: Voting issues
  
  On May 12, volunteers from the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting –Archdiocesan Citizen Engagement Committee were denied entry to vote in Davao City. Senior citizens were frustrated at the waiting times to vote, some waiting up to an hour. NAMFREL said that most of the issues were related to the voting machines. According to NAMFREL, machines flagged properly filled ballots as invalid, ballots were rejected due to ink smudges, blocked screens prevented the machines from reading ballots, and machines rejected ballots because of folds. NAMFREL also flagged violations of ballot secrecy, like the absence of secrecy folders, voters discussing their votes with others, and ballots being visible to others.
  
  In social media, there were multiple reports of overvoting, with some sources stating that the ink bled to the other side. Because some machines experienced overheating, 311 of the 16,000 voting machines had to be replaced. Some voter receipts did not match the candidates that people voted for, causing COMELEC Chairman George Garcia to say that there is a high possibility that people forgot who they were voting for. According to election watchdogs Kontra Daya and Vote Report PH, there were 1,362 voter reports about glitches. 693 of the reports were about machine errors. The Department of Education said that 130 out of the 160 election-related complaints were about overvoting cases. Senatorial candidate Jocelyn Andamo was unable to vote for a party-list group because of a machine error. Actor Khalil Ramos 's party-list vote was disqualified because the machine thought he overvoted.