MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday achieved a nearly 100 percent accuracy score after its Random Manual Audit (RMA) of the May 9 elections. Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, in charge of the RMA Committee, said they started last month and finished ahead of schedule. "On behalf of the entire Random Manual Audit Committee, including the civil society organizations, Philippine Statistics Authority, and your Commission, as well as the teachers who served as RMA teams, I am happy to report that we finished ahead of schedule and that our accuracy rate as of 4 p.m. yesterday (Sunday) stands at 99.95928%," she said in a statement. "The law gives us a maximum of 45 days to finish the audit, but with the dedication and cooperation of all parties involved, it took us only 34 days. We finished early and we finished strong," Ferolino added. On May 10, Comelec randomly selected at least one clustered precinct per legislative district for RMA, with 757 clustered p
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.
(File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has released the guidelines for the conduct of the random manual audit (RMA) for next year's elections. In Resolution 10738 promulgated on Thursday and released on Friday, the poll body said at least one clustered precinct in every legislative district shall be randomly selected for the RMA. "The actual number of precincts to be selected in a legislative district shall be determined by proportional allocation, that is, based on the number of clustered precincts a legislative district has in proportion to that of all the other legislative districts in the country," it said. "For purposes of the 9 May 2022 National and Local Elections, the maximum total number of clustered precincts to be selected shall not be more than 759." The RMA will start not later than five days after election day and shall be held at a venue within the National Capital Region to be determined by the Random Manual Audit Committee (
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