No transmission problem with transparency server — Comelec

Comelec spokesman James Jimenez clarifies there is no transmission problem; issue is with transparency server (where PPCRV, media get their unofficial count) #Eleksyon2019 | via @nclagrimas pic.twitter.com/Hk1oB04ofv

— GMA News (@gmanews) 13 May 2019

There is no transmission problem in relaying the results to the transparency server to media outlets, Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesperson James Jimenez said.

PPCRV command center at 12:30 a.m. Partial, unofficial results still stuck at figures from 6:05 p.m. We’ll see later if Comelec will be able to resolve what it said was a problem in the app pushing transmitted results from transparency server to media @gmanews pic.twitter.com/MxctK2GkX0

— Nicole Lagrimas (@nclagrimas) 13 May 2019

"It is not a transmission problem. It’s a problem with the application that pushes the data from the transparency server to the different media outlets," said Jimenez, who went to the PPCRV headquarters late Monday evening to work on the issue.

"Medyo malalim 'yung issue, medyo malalim 'yung problema kaya hindi siya madaling i-solve," he added.

But the process requires the approval of the Comelec en banc, he said.

He said the transparency server has sent a memo to the commissioners requesting approval for the opening of the error logs.

The hitch in the system has caused a halt to the unofficial count of media organizations and watchdog groups for the 2019 midterm elections.

This includes the count in the Eleksyon 2019 results website on GMA News Online, whose last update shows only 0.38% of election returns processed as of 6:15 p.m.

ERs are generated by vote-counting machines (VCMs), which transmit them to the main Comelec server for the official count and to the transparency server to provide media organizations the ability to conduct an unofficial count.

Jimenez voiced hope that the issue will be resolved early Tuesday morning.

He underscored that there are no indications of an external entity affecting the transparency server.

Jimenez also stressed that "the rest of the transmissions" -- to the transparency server, the canvassers, and the central server -- "are proceeding as planned." As of posting time, the Comelec has received 77,368 out of 85,769 -- 90.51 percent -- election returns.

However, the screens at the PPCRV, the body tasked to conduct an unofficial parallel count of votes, still show results from 6:05 p.m., when the electronically transmitted results were at 0.38 percent. — Bernadette Parco/JST, GMA News