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As of June 14, 2007, the Bantay Eleksyon '07 database
recorded 295 incident reports. The database recorded
mostly cases of "election law violation" (119 reports or
33%) which take the form of unlawful electioneering,
withholding of copies of voters list, gunban violation,
denied access to watchers, public works ban violation,
illegal removal of campaign materials, ballot secrecy
violation, various cases of voter disenfranchisement,
several cases of fraud (e.g. vote buying, flying voters,
voting done by another), presence of uniformed personnel
and unauthorized personnel in the polling place, and
coercion of election personnel.
Incidents of "electoral fraud" (74 or 20%), "personnel
inefficiency" (64 or 18%), "violence" (43 or 12%) , as
well as "intimidation" (34 or 9%) were also reported.
Reports of fraud include vote buying, presence of flying
voters, voting done by another person, ballot switching
and snatching, illegal and advance casting of votes,
reading wrong name from ballot, missing ballots and
other election paraphernalia.
Personnel inefficiency reports Comelec personnel in NCR
who are not performing office tasks during office hours,
especially that it was only a fews days before election
day. Other reports of personnel inefficiency on the part
of Comelec officers and its deputies include: absence of
BEIs, and of a centralized Comelec desk, lacking or lost
forms and padlock among other election paraphernalia,
unsecured ballot boxes, discrepancies in the voters list
and other case which result in voter disenfranchisement.
Violent incidents include cases of
killing/assassination/ murder/shooting, ambush, arson,
physical injury, rumble, crowd chaos, and bomb
explosion. Intimidation against voters, BEI, and
watchers and supporters take the form of threats of
violence, presence of uniformed or security personnel,
interception or influencing of voters, and blackmail.
Most number of incidents of violence and intimidation
were recorded to come from Area 8 or the ARMM.
Local Comelec personnel and their representatives and
deputies were most frequently reported as the
perpetrator of the incident (30%), followed by
"political party/candidates" (29%) and "supporters of
candidates" (16%).
All reports in the database were from citizen reporters
and organized monitoring teams from the eight (8) focus
regions. Most reports have been verified while some
entries are still being verified with area coordinators.
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