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Modern VCM tested at Lucena mall

LUCENA CITY — Residents here cast their votes in a demonstration for the new automated vote counting machine (VCM) at the event center of SM City Lucena on Saturday.

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia graced the event, elaborating on the features of the machine to be used in the 2025 midterm elections.

MODERN VOTE COUNTING MACHINE Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia shows the ballot receipts cast by a voter, to be inserted in the receipt receptacle — a feature that addressed the voters' concern if their vote is really counted — during a demonstration activity using the Comelec's new automated voting machine. PHOTO BY BELLY OTORDOZ