One of the perennial issues encountered in election management is the question of whether members of the Board of Election Inspectors – or in the case of the B&SK Elections, the Board of Election Tellers – can vote in the place where they’re performing election functions.
COMELEC Resolution No. 9030 addresses that point squarely:
Members of the BET may vote in the polling place where they are assigned on election day as long as (1) they are registered voters of the barangay where they are assigned; (2) if they are voting in a precinct where they are not registered, that fact is noted in the Minutes of Voting and Counting of Votes; and (3) they shall noted down in the Election Day Computerized Voters’ List (EDCVL) their names and the precinct where they are actually registered.
However, any member of the BET who is not registered in the barangay where is assigned may leave his post for not more than 20 minutes in order to vote, provided he does so when the voting in his place of assignment is light. Only one BET member at a time may leave his post to vote.