Villar, Poe remain on top of Senate race as count finally resumes

Incumbent senators Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe remained in the lead of the Senate race as the Commission on Elections finally fixed the issue that had prevented media organizations and poll watchdogs from getting results from the agency’s transparency server.

Villar and Poe, the two consistent survey topnotchers prior to the elections, continued to lead the pack as of 8:12 a.m. with 93.60 percent of election returns processed.

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The count for the rest of the senatorial candidates and all local positions are available on the Eleksyon 2019 website.

The unofficial count was delayed after the application responsible for pushing out the results from the transparency server to third-party organizations suffered a glitch after its initial broadcast on Monday, shortly after the polls closed. The Comelec en banc approved a resolution to look into the error logs of the server and fix the issue.

Election returns 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 third parties the ability to conduct an unofficial count.

Comelec spokesman James Jimenez 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.” —JST/KG, GMA News