UST-HOSTED COMMAND CENTER The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has set up its monitoring and media center at the Quadricentennial Pavilion of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila, where it will conduct its quick count and parallel audit of the May 9 elections. —RICHARD A. REYES
MANILA, Philippines — There are no complaints from the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) citizens’ arm on the accuracy of poll results, Commissioner George Garcia said Tuesday.
Garcia said that the PPCRV just needed to compare data to prove the accuracy of results.
“There is one way to prove the accuracy of the results as transmitted. [PPCRV] will just compare the hard copies of the [election returns] as collected nationwide with the results per precinct from the transparency server. As of today, we have not received any complaints from our citizens arm,” Garcia said in a message to reporters.
Based on the partial and unofficial tally, former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is leading the presidential race with 30,690,016 votes as of Tuesday, 10:02 a.m.
Marcos was followed by Vice President Leni Robredo with 14,643,910 votes.
As of posting time, 104,271 of the 107,785 clustered precincts have transmitted election returns.
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