MANILA, Philippines – The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) will continue to validate election returns even after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed the winners of the 2019 mid-term polls. PPCRV national chairperson Myla Villanueva said that if the Comelec will proclaim the official winners, the digitally-transmitted election returns will stop by that time. However, Villanueva said that they will still continue to encode digitally-transmitted election returns (ER) . “We will make sure it is encoded.”As of 3:12 p.m. on Saturday, election returns from 1,313 clustered precincts have yet to be transmitted. Villanueva added that the PPCRV also wanted to maintain a high match rate of validated election returns, which was now at 99.98 percent as of Friday afternoon.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 18, 2019 09:33 UTC