Makati Congressman Teodoro ‘’Teddy Boy’’ Locsin Jr. suggested Wednesday that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) use the baseball bat on flying voters in the forthcoming May 10 elections.

The baseball bat should be used on those who try to wreck the fair and honest outcome of the elections because guns could not be used on erring flying voters because of the current Comelec gun ban, he said.

Locsin aired this view during a public hearing by the Joint Oversight Committee on Automated Election System co-chaired by Sen. Francis Escudero and Rep. Edcel Lagman where top officials of the Comelec led by its chairman, Jose Melo, has suggested that it is too late to go to court to disenfranchise the so-called flying voters.

Escudero expressed fears that the unresolved issue of ‘’padded’’ list of voters from the total registered voters of 50 million would affect the outcome of he forthcoming presidential elections.

Melo said the reported padded list of voters that fluctuates from five millon to 3.2 million could have been plucked from the air.

Retired Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz put the estimated number of flying voters at five million, saying that based on his conversation with a former Comelec commissioner while the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsibie Voting (PPCRV) claimed the padded voters in the 2010 automated elections is 3.2 million.

Based on the reported 40,000 flying voters or padded votes in Davao city and Davao del Sur, the PPCRV came out with the estimate of 3.2 million padded votes by multiplying 40,000 with 80 provinces.