An official of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Saturday, May 14, said that the poll watchdog’s second batch of election return (ER) validation produced a 98.39 percent match rate.
PPCRV spokesperson Atty. Vann dela Cruz, in a press briefing held Saturday afternoon, said that as of 5 p.m. on May 13, 2022, they have so far received a total of 45,135 physical ERs. Out of those received, 30,727 have been encoded.
Meanwhile, these fully-encoded ERs underwent validation and only 30,235 physical ERs have matched the electronically-transmitted results.
“The difference of 492 is accounted as follows: 49 have not yet been compared because our system does an automated process, meaning it will be processed in the next batch. 203 have no electronically-transmitted ERs. This means that we already have the pre-transmission copy but no electronically-transmitted copies have been received yet. 240 of these physical ERs that have already been encoded, are for re-validation,” said Dela Cruz.
Revalidation means that the ERs will be reviewed and reprocessed again manually. This, according to Dela Cruz, is a normal occurrence and it is a part of the validation process.
This match rate only includes about 28.5 percent of the country’s ERs.