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PPCRV sees few discrepancies in validation of election returns


Poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) saw small discrepancies in its ongoing validation of election returns from the 2019 midterm polls, an official said Tuesday.

Dr. Arwin Serrano, a PPCRV board member, told reporters the watchdog saw "a few discrepancies" brought about by errors on the part of their volunteers, such as wrongly encoded numbers due to similar-looking figures.

He also said there had been instances in the past of election returns being smudged or sticking to tape. The election returns will undergo a second and/or a third and final validation in case of discrepancies, the board member said.

Tasked to conduct an official parallel count of election results, the PPCRV deploys volunteers to manually encode votes from physical copies of election returns into computers to be validated against results transmitted electronically from vote-counting machines to the Commission on Elections' servers.

A hundred volunteers for each of three daily shifts encode the votes into computers installed at the PPCRV's command center in Manila. While they do that, large screens in the room show the unofficial results coming from the Comelec's transparency server.

Serrano said the PPCRV has so far received around 8,000 of more than 85,000 election returns. The number might reach 12,000 to 15,000 before the day ends, and the watchdog expects they will get 50 percent of the returns by Wednesday, he added.

The PPCRV earlier said they are looking for more volunteers to help monitor poll results. They said they deployed 300,000 for Monday's elections. —LDF, GMA News

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