WATCH: Comelec discusses Random Manual Audit to foreign observers
MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Juan Andres “Andy” Bautista on Tuesday explained the Random Manual Audit (RMA), one of the election safeguards, to foreign observers.
While addressing the foreign observers at the Philippine International Convention Center, also the headquarters of the Comelec National Board of Canvassers, Bautista shared that RMA is being conducted to ensure that the transmitted results from the vote counting machines will tally with the results of the ballots. He said they will open the machine and ballots and make manual comparison.
“One of the safeguards of the elections is what we call the Random Manual Audit. So essentially there were precincts that were chosen in order to show that machine counts as the ballots was filled up,” the poll body chief said.
Bautista said in 2010 and 2013, they followed what the law said that there should be one precinct chosen for each 235 legislative districts. However for the 2016 elections, they increased it to 715 districts.
The poll body also acknowledged the help from the National Movement for Free Elections whose members are mostly from the private sectors who once headed the top auditing firms PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, and Ernst and Young, among others.
Bautista shares election safeguards to foreign... by philstarnews
Text by Rosette Adel; Video by Efigenio Toledo IV
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