The random manual audit of votes cast during the May 9 elections has been completed and matched 99.95 percent of election returns, the Commission on Elections reported yesterday.
The Commission on Elections had initiated its own probe into the malfunctioning vote counting machines and SD cards during May 9 elections, even before President Rodrigo Duterte spoke about it.
The random manual audit of the 2022 elections began opening ballot boxes Thursday to ensure the accuracy of the automated count of the Comelec s vote counting machines provided by Smartmatic.
The Philippines will soon conduct one of Asia’s largest elections in 2022. One expert says the campaign period is beginning to look like a “public health nightmare.”
The Legal Network for Truthful Elections (Lente) has called for another voting simulation.
Lente The group issued the call citing the low voter turnout in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) voting simulation exercise last Oct. 23 at San Juan Elementary School. In a statement on Wednesday,