Namfrel Chairperson Angel Averia Jr. says the persistent allegations of fraud 'are rooted in the non-transparency of the automated election system and the lack of transparency in its implementation'
BAGUIO, Philippines – The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections has urged the Commission on Elections to make transmission logs and other automated election system data public while reiterating that there were no observable anomalies in the May 2022 elections.
Averia, who was in Baguio for the second leg of his group’s “Maging Bantay ng Bayan” election and good governance monitoring training project, was responding to The group also stood by their findings that “based on the data made available, Namfrel did not observe any anomalies in the automated counting of votes and the electronic transmission of election results” during the last elections.
He pointed out that the random manual audit, provided for by law, only deals with precinct results, not the entire transmission process, including municipal, city, and provincial canvasses.
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