The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has completed the training of 16,509 public school teachers, who will serve as members of the electoral board in the upcoming May 13 mid-term elections in Region 8 (Eastern Visayas).
Comelec-8 Assistant Director Felicisimo Embalsado said the training for teachers, who will administer voting in the region’s 5,503 clustered precincts, began February 25 and was completed last week.
“The training is almost the same every year, but we have to make sure that teachers are well-versed on the use of the vote counting machines (VCMs),” Embalsado said in a press briefing at the Leyte Park Hotel on Saturday.
The Department of Science and Technology certified teachers on their capability to operate the VCMs for the automated polls intended for each clustered precinct.
“Their skills have been tested through written and practical examinations. We have substitutes for teachers if they fail in the test,” Embalsado told reporters.
In the next two weeks, Comelec-8 will hold a four-day training for board of canvassers composed of 600 Department of Education supervisors, election officers, and prosecutors.
The electoral board consists of a chairman and a poll clerk, who are public school teachers. The board acts as deputies of the Commission in the supervision and control of the election in their assigned polling places.
Contested positions in this year’s polls are seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, party lists, governors, vice governors, board members, mayors, and councilors.
(PNA)
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