Lapid wants parallel manual count stopped
By Charlie V. Manalo 05/13/2010 Saying that the parallel manual count being conducted to check the accuracy of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines does not actually reflect the true result of the elections, reelectionist Sen. Lito Lapid called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately put a halt to the parallel count. Currently ranked 11th among the senatorial candidates, both in the Comelec and media reports of the results of the May 10 elections, Lapid called for the immediate cessation of the publication or broadcast of the parallel count which pictured him to be losing. “The parallel count,” the senator claims, “which is being made at random to check the accuracy of the PCOS figures manually does not, in any measure, reflect the actual results of the election as it does not cover all the precincts. To make it appear so would only confuse the public since the random ‘parallel count,’ which is limited pict to a number of precincts, may contravene with the totality of the tally based on all results transmitted directly from the precincts to the Comelec and the PPCRV.” Lapid was reacting to the ABS-CBN/STI count at 7:30 a.m. (May 11) which placed him at the 15th place with 354,797 votes..... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20100513nat2.html |
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