Poe, Legarda pace early Senate tally

MIXED REACTIONS. The partial and unofficial results of the senatorial elections being flashed on the huge monitor at the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible operations center draw cheers and jeers from observers at the Pope Pius Center in Manila. VIDEO/RYAN LEAGOGO

MANILA, Philippines — Double counts aside, Team PNoy senatorial candidate Grace Poe still emerged on top of the list of the unofficial tally of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) for the midterm elections.

As of 9:04 p.m. Poe has received 6,836,542 votes in the poll watchdog’s tally.

She was followed by Senator Loren Legarda who garnered 6,182,096 votes.

The PPCRV has earlier put down its earlier data on the first transmissions from polling precincts, saying that there had been a “double count.”

Ana De Villa-Singson, PPCRV’s media director earlier issued a statement maintaining that while a check on the transparency server indicated that the “data is correct” there had been an issue on how it was formatted.

“Two passes” on the data culled by PPCRV were done to make sure that the figures they released were verified.

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