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Random manual tally of votes begins to check accuracy of VCMs
The Commission on Elections (Comelec), Philippine Statistics Authority, and civil society organizations have kicked off the 45-day random manual audit (RMA) of votes cast for the 2022 elections.
Ballot boxes from 757 randomly chosen clustered precincts nationwide have arrived for the RMA, which aims to check the accuracy of vote-counting machines (VCMs).
Public school teachers are manually tallying votes from paper ballots, and the results will be compared with those from the automated election system (AES).
In previous elections in 2016 and 2019, random manual audits of select VCMs showed accuracy rates of 99%.
Comelec Commissioner Aimee Ferolino stated that the RMA aims to validate the accuracy of the machine count against the actual ballots, thereby strengthening faith in the electoral system and dispelling doubts about the AES's credibility.
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