Directions: Listen to a news report about the 2022 Elections in the Philippines through Learning Opportunity 2 this link bit English7News. Jot down the important details from the text and use your notes to answer the following questions.
1. Which government agency is primarily concerned with the May 2022 poils?
2. As suggested in the text, in what year was the last national election held?
3. What was the sole bidder's reason for backing out from supplying vote counting machines for the next elections?
4. Why were some lawmakers anxious about the upcoming elections?
5. How can the Comelec avoid further spread of Covid-19 on the election day?
1. Which government agency is primarily concerned with the May 2022 poils?
2. As suggested in the text, in what year was the last national election held?
3. What was the sole bidder's reason for backing out from supplying vote counting machines for the next elections?
4. Why were some lawmakers anxious about the upcoming elections?
5. How can the Comelec avoid further spread of Covid-19 on the election day?
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1. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC)
2. About three years ago (2019)
3. The Commission on Elections declared a failure of bidding for its plan to lease an additional 10,000 vote counting machines (VCMs) for the 2022 elections.
Only SMMT-TIM 2016, Inc. or Smartmatic, which has supplied the VCMs and the technology for automated elections since 2010, expressed intent to participate when it bought bid documents in August.
However, the company did not submit a formal proposal during the September 9 deadline for bids, saying the contract price of ₱60,050.35 was too cheap.
4. Because of the fear that the COVID-19 pandemic spread could get worse.
5. In April 2020, COMELEC Commissioner Rowena Guanzon has proposed voting by mail as an option in the elections, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By May 2021, Commissioner Antonio Kho Jr. said that voting hours will be extended, as the eight-hour timeframe given for previous elections cannot be used any longer. As for voting in multiple days, Kho said that only a law passed by Congress will allow that to happen.
Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, in a privilege speech, disclosed that he commissioned a Pulse Asia survey on July 2021 which said that 46% of voters will not vote if COVID-19 cases in their barangay is high on election day, with 35% willing to vote and 19% undecided. Zubiri questioned if the public will accept the results if less than majority of the voters turned out to vote.
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