The groups claimed that massive technical glitches marred Monday’s midterm elections and allowed pro-administration senatorial candidates to shut out the opposition. ADVERTISEMENTIn protest rallies dubbed “#Anyare Comelec” (What happened, Comelec?) Colmenares also criticized the technical glitches in the VCMs and the seven-hour blackout in the transmission of results on Election Day. The LP urged the Comelec to create an “independent body” to investigate the seven-hour data outage of the transparency server. On Wednesday, the Comelec and poll watchdog Legal Network for Truthful Elections began the RMA, which aims to check the accuracy of the VCMs.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 17, 2019 21:22 UTC