Manila Bulletin
PPCRV chair refutes misconceptions, explains function of poll watchdog
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is not conducting random manual audits of actual ballots, clarified PPCRV national chairperson Myla Villanueva.
Instead, the PPCRV focuses on guarding against transmission fraud and 'dagdag bawas' by comparing pre-transmission and post-transmission Election Returns (ERs).
Physical pre-transmission ERs are printed before the vote counting machines transmit poll returns, and the PPCRV receives a copy of these results.
These physical ERs are then encoded and compared with their electronically-transmitted counterparts.
As of Saturday, May 14, the PPCRV reported a 98.42 percent match rate after validating 39,882 poll returns.
Villanueva mentioned that other organizations, such as NAMFREL and LENTE, are conducting the Random Manual Audit, which involves checking actual ballots against ERs.
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As of Thursday, May 12, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has fully encoded 16,820 election returns (ERs), which yielded a 100 percent match.
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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has received 60,848 out of 107,785 election returns (ERs), representing 56.45% of the total for their parallel count as of Sunday morning.
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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has received 93,347 physical election returns nationwide, representing 86.6% of the total expected returns.
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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) identified a 1.61% mismatch in approximately 240 election returns compared to the transparency media server for the 2022 elections.
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