MANILA, Philippines — Was the automated election system (AES) used by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the midterm polls compromised? “As you know, these security issues have a legal aspect so we cannot just divulge our findings. Volunteers of the poll watchdog have been working day and night at their command center in Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Manila to cross-check the electronically transmitted results received from the transparency server with the actual ERs. Data completeDespite the bottleneck, Villanueva said the data that entered the transparency server were complete. “I’m not saying there is no problem in transmission, what we are saying is that data was coming into the transparency server despite the fact that our tally boards did not receive the data from the transparency server.

Source: Philippine Star May 20, 2019 15:56 UTC