Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) , a church-based poll watchdog, said on Thursday, that electronic election returns (ERs) transmitted to the transparency server matches 100% with the “fourth copy”.

Vann Dela Cruz, spokesperson of PPCRV, said that interested parties whose questioning the irregularities will need to coordinate with the poll watchdog and it is open to share data and appealed to their critics to think about the efforts of PPCRV volunteers who literally crossed rivers and mountains to safely bring the ERs to the command center.

“There is a right venue to question those issues but let us do our work here. We still have to work. We have the mandate. ERs continue to arrive, and we continue to validate. Philippines, let’s be calm.” He said.

Meanwhile, data reaches cyberspace, eight pre-transmission copies were already printed and the PPCRV is entitled to receive the “fourth copy” which is being brought by their volunteers all over the country to the PPCRV command center for validation.

“Ang tanong ng mga tao, baka mamaya, pagbato ng mga VCM sa cyberspace, baka may biglang mag-intercept eh. Mag-intercept, baguhin yung numero para pagbagsak sa server.” Dela Cruz said during the press conference. 

To add, PPCRV received a total of 24,640 initial physical copies of pre-transmission ERs as of 11:20 a.m. in its command center at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. It has so far encoded 16,820 ERs.

As of 6:02 p.m. Thursday, ERs from a total of 106,008 or 98.35 percent out of 107,785 clustered precincts were already transmitted and counted based on the PPCRV’s transparency server.

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