PPCRV gets reports of mismatches between votes and ACM receipts

Hours into the voting on Eleksyon 2025, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) said it received reports of mismatches between the actual votes and the receipts from the automated counting machines (ACM).

Some ballots were also invalidated due to overvoting, the group added.

“No specific geographic. At first, we’re trying to observe if there is a pattern in a specific polling center, but it seems yung mga tawag namin, so far, iba’t iba ang locations (the calls we receive came from different locations),” PPCRV spokesperson Ana Singson told reporters.

Singson noted that this is the first time PPCRV received such reports. 

In one case, a voter picked four senators, but the automatic counting machines read eight senators. 

“Alam niyo mahirap masabi ngayon kung problema ng machine yan kasi hindi natin nakikita yung balota, hindi na-assess ang balota,” Singson said

“Kung may issue man ay makikita ito sa random manual audit. Accurate ba ang pagbilang ng makina? Malalaman natin yan sa random manual audit,” she added.

(It’s difficult to say if there is a problem with the machine because we cannot see and assess the ballot. If there is an issue, it can be seen in the random manual audit. We can see in the random manual audit if the counting of the machine is accurate.) —LDF, GMA Integrated News

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