Below is the summary of observations and findings by the Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan (ANIM) and the Church Leaders Council for National Transformation (CLCNT).
1) All the Election Returns (ERS) from the precincts nationwide were NOT SENT DIRECTLY to PPCRV, NAMFREL, and the Media, but were SENT FIRST to an intermediary server, the DATA CENTER 3, that consolidated the election returns from the precincts before they were sent to PPCRV, NAMFREL, and the Media. This was in violation of Comelec's own Comelec Resolution 11098, Annex B (ACM Operation Procedures, 13 Dec 2024) where it was clearly stated that when the "START TRANSMISSION" button of the ACM at the precinct is MBOC (city/municipal), Central tapped, the transmission of the ERs will proceed to the following servers - Server, Citizen's ARMM Server 1, Citizen's ARMM Server 2, Media Server, Dominant Majority Server, and Dominant Minority Server. DATA CENTER 3 SERVER was not listed as among those to receive ERs from the ACMs. DATA CENTER 1 is an illegal, unlawful server.
2) Comelec, thru its Data Center 3, was the only one that performed the consolidation of all election returns from precincts nationwide, without the presence or participation of PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media.
3) There was a long delay before Comelec, thru its Data Center 3 Server, released the first batch of the consolidated election results data, in the format agreed by the parties, to PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media. According to Eric Alviar, Namfrel Secretary General, the delay was around 2 hours from the closing of voting period. What really happened during those 2 hours when the PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media were blind as to the election results from precincts nationwide, when only Comelec had exclusive access and control to the results?
4) The Comelec, thru Data Center 3, merely supplied PPCRV, Namfrel, and the media with the consolidated election results data from precincts nationwide, which the latter used for their respective TALLIES of election results. Comelec was the ONLY source of the COMPLETE election results data from precincts nationwide. The PPCRV, Namfrel, and the media did not have any other independent source of the complete election results from precincts nationwide apart from the ones supplied by Comelec.
5) A vote discrepancy of around 5 million votes was discovered by Rappler and other media teams. Comelec said it was due to duplication in the transmission of some election returns. But the Comelec was the ONLY ONE who conducted the "cleaning" or "paglilinis" process of the vote discrepancy. It deleted around 5 million votes. PPCRV, Namfrel, and the media were not present or involved in the clean-up process. Thereafter, Comelec merely supplied to PPCRV, Namfrel, and the media the cleaned or corrected data files.
6) Thousands of voters complained that their VVPATS or voter's receipts did not reflect the list of candidates they voted for. May nadagdag. May nabawas. Many voters also complained that the ballots issued to them were pre-shaded, or where the names of certain candidates were already shaded. Comelec still has to issue the official data of the total numbers of these complaints.
7) In the 2019 midterm elections, a total of 1,170,331 official ballots had overvotes. Meaning, 1,170,331 voters were disenfranchised in the 2019 election. In this 2025 midterm elections, Namfrel reported that there was 17,028,780 overvotes. Namfrel said that from 2010 to 2022 elections, the overvotes averaged only at 1.5% to 2.5%, but for this 2025 election, the overvotes reached 29.89%. Should this be a cause for serious concern for all of us?
8) The Comelec changed the program installed in the ACM and used an "updated" version 3.5.0 that did not go through the local source code review and independent certification by IT experts and organizations, as required by law (Sec 12, RA 9369). Comelec made the change without notice to the public, without explaining why it had to "update" the program, and what changes were made in the updated version.
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