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Comelec junks parallel manual count petition By Marie Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz 04/30/2010

Friday, April 30, 2010

Comelec junks parallel manual count petition


By Marie Surbano and Aytch S. de la Cruz
04/30/2010

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has rejected the proposal of various groups to conduct a parallel manual count as backup to automated counting of votes in the May 10 polls, saying the process is too dangerous that the electoral body’s “credibility will once again be questioned if it will allow it.”

In a seven-page resolution, the Comelec en banc yesterday noted that “allowing the conduct of a manual audit is vulnerable to possible styles” of irregularities.
“The scrapping of the electronic count and canvass in favor of the hand count and manual canvassing will likely open up the possibility of the return of old modes of cheating — particularly ‘dagdag-bawas’ (vote padding-shaving) and the resurrection of sleeping Garcis. With the certificate of canvass prepared manually, the old ills of error and fabricated CoCs will resurface, leading ironically to a less credible election result,” the resolution said.
The Comelec is referring to the proposal which will count all the votes cast, and if the figures of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines and the manual count will not tally, the machine count will be excluded.
“But the commission also cannot accept that the mere existence of disagreement between the hand count and the electronic count should automatically be interpreted as proof of the inaccuracy of the electronic count. The beneficiality of a parallel manual count, therefore, is limited only to proving the existence of a discrepancy; it does not, by itself, prove the invalidity of the electronic count,” the poll body explained.... MORE

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