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DFA: Distribution of pre-shaded ballots in Singapore embassy 'fake news'
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has debunked reports of pre-shaded ballots being distributed to overseas absentee voters for Eleksyon 2022, calling them 'fake news'.
Foreign Undersecretary Brigido Dulay stated during a Senate hearing that there is no truth to the social media allegations, except for one isolated incident in Singapore.
In Singapore, a spoiled ballot was inadvertently given to a voter due to a human error where two ballots were stuck together during printing.
When the voter attempted to fill out the ballots, they unintentionally completed two, with one being detected as spoiled by the vote-counting machine.
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