00:00The Commission on Elections has approved the lowering of the threshold for the shade that will be used by automated counting machines for the 2025 midterm elections.
00:09From 25 percent, it has been lowered to 15 percent.
00:13According to Comelec Chair George Erwin Garcia, this is far from being able to address the complaints and questions of voters about why their votes were not counted due to the lack of shade.
00:24Despite this, Paul Boddy called on the public to still adjust the marking on their balotas and to make sure that it is still on the circle.
00:31According to Comelec, there are votes that were not counted during the 2022 presidential elections due to the high threshold for shade.
00:41Therefore, for the election of 2025, our threshold is 15 percent.
00:46Based on our observations, we can see that the pen that we will use during the election is almost 20 percent.
