Commission on Elections Chairman George Garcia says there was no attempt to pad or shave anyone’s votes, there were just varying ways and speed by which end users processed and presented the data made available by the Comelec.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/elections/comelec-explanation-process-vote-discrepancy-concerns-may-2025/
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/elections/comelec-explanation-process-vote-discrepancy-concerns-may-2025/
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00:00Commission on Elections chairman George Garcia says there was no attempt to pad
00:05or shave anyone's votes, there were just varying ways and speed by which end-users
00:09processed and presented the data made available by the COMELEC.
00:13This in response to concerns over-count mismatches by various poll trackers that
00:17were based on data batches with duplicate precincts.
00:20Rappler reported early Tuesday morning, media tech teams at the COMELEC server
00:24center in Makati noticed duplicate precincts had been reflected in the quick counts.
00:29By 2 a.m., the media teams fixed the data and the numbers on their election results
00:33websites were updated.
00:50Garcia explains the COMELEC gets human-readable data which means their tracker updates in
00:55real-time without having to process and clean up data.
00:58Meanwhile, media groups, poll watchdogs, and political parties get their data from
01:03five other COMELEC servers.
01:05Garcia says this is why it takes longer for their trackers to show the same results as COMELECs.
01:12So...
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