Where were the UV lamps?  

I think it was not Smartmatic who got the contract for the UV lamps. They did bid, if memory serves me right. Now that you mention it, I guess therein lay the problem. All the other election paraphernalia were contracted out to Smartmatic. So when they transported those, the Comelec forgot all about the UV lamps. Remember the Ballot Secrecy Folder which cost a fortune? In the end the teachers had to make their own folders. I think this is one more boo-boo for the Comelec.

In case of power interruptions... :-) Just kidding, they are for authenticating the ballots.

Yes, this is one more thing that the Comelec forgot. We were so excited about the PCOS machines that we forgot all the other election paraphernalias. But we paid for this so the voters should have been able to use them. I wonder what Comelec will do with all those UV lamps.

The last few days before the elections Comelec went on panic mode as there were many things that transpired like delayed delivery of PCOS machines and worst was the delivery of the reconfigured flash cards. That was the last minute things they were frantically doing the last few days before May 10. They decided not to deliver the UV lamps anymore because they said it was not a very important part of the election process. Oh well maybe next time they would have a much organized delivery of the needed paraphernalias. I think they should return it to their supplier and not pay that anymore since it was never used at all.

The last few days really showed how ill-prepared the Comelec was for the elections. I don't think its the job of the contractor to deliver the UV lamps to the precincts. It was negligent of Comelec to forget about all the other election paraphernalias.

Oops, just noticed the typos, pardon me for those.

Where's your husband's precinct? You're the first one to say that there were UV lamps sent to precincts. Honestly, I was too upset by the long lines and the heat that I just wanted to get it over and done with. The news did say that there were precincts without UV lamps. Even in the polling place where I served as PPCRV, I did not see UV lamps there. I guess it was really forgotten. But how come they had for some and none for others?

His precinct was in San Francisco Elementary School located in Barangay Del Monte, Frisco, Quezon City. He also had too much trouble before he was able to finally cast his votes. But in my precinct it took me less than 30 minutes to vote. Me and my siblings were surprised to know that we were actually at the end of the line right at the door of the precinct. So, we were not among those who had to wait two hours or more to be able to vote. My husband was so surprised when I texted him that I have voted coz he left the house 2 hours before me.