MANILA — Actual canvassing for president and vice president at the House of Representatives started with the opening of the overseas absentee voters’ certificates of canvass (COC) from the Kingdom of Laos at 6:57 p.m. Thursday.

The joint canvassing committee of Congress sitting as National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) finally opened a ballot box after three days of relentless debates on technical aspects of the first-ever automated election. Read rest of story