The Church-based poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Friday began poring over the computer logs of the transparency server of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), particularly during a seven-hour delay in the transmission of the May 13 election results from voting precincts across the country. The PPCRV head was referring to the seven-hour interruption in the transmission of voting results, which raised fears that it provided a window for the electronic manipulation of the data. ‘Bottleneck’ blamedThe Comelec transparency server stopped sending results to the PPCRV tally boards around 6:14 p.m. on May 13 after transmitting only about 0.3 percent of the total number of the votes cast. ADVERTISEMENTThe review may take time due to the large volume of data and the PPCRV will not open the logs in public in compliance with Comelec rules, Villanueva said. As of Friday afternoon, it has received and recorded voting results from a total of 26,800 ERs, comprising about 30.6 percent of the total expected ERs, Villanueva said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer May 17, 2019 21:33 UTC