PPCRV yields 100% match rate so far in 16,820 encoded physical ERs

Scene at the PPCRV headquarters, UST. INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) had so far recorded a 100 percent match rate between physical election returns (ERs) and electronically transmitted results in the 16,820 encoded ERs so far.

PPCRV spokesperson Atty. Van dela Cruz said that ERs were manually encoded and verified by hundreds of volunteers by matching them with the electronic results from the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) transparency server.

“Ngayon, out of 16,820 encoded namin, pinagbangga namin doon sa kanilang katumbas na electronically transmitted returns mula sa parehong vote counting machines, ang yield po ay 100% na nagmamatch o nagtutugma,” Dela Cruz said in a press briefing at the University of Santo Tomas’ Quadricentennial Pavilion.

(Now out of 16,820 we encoded, we matched these with their equivalent electronically transmitted returns from the same vote counting machines, the yield is a 100% match.)

He further explained that the encoded ERs were “pre-transmission election returns” which refer to the returns printed by vote counting machines (VCMs) before it electronically transmitted results to the Comelec transparency server.

As of Wednesday night, a total of 23,420 physical ERs (or 21.73 percent of more than 107,000 total returns) had been received by the PPCRV.

More physical ERs are expected to arrive on Friday, said Dela Cruz.

The PPCRV is set to operate until May 20 in its command center at the University of Santo Tomas’ Quadricentennial Pavilion.

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