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Comelec: Random manual audit shows 99. 997% accuracy as of Friday afternoon
With the random manual audit (RMA) of the automated elections nearing its completion, Commission on Elections chairman George Garcia on Friday said that the RMA has so far indicated 99.997% accuracy by the machines used in Eleksyon 2025.
Some 762 ballot boxes have been chosen for the RMA.
"So far, of the 723 na ballot boxes subject of the random manual audit, so far naman 99.997% 'yung accuracy ng atin pong machine... yung count ng machine saka nung manual counting," Garcia said in a news conference on Friday afternoon.
Garcia said the statistics of the completed audit are expected to be done on Monday.
The accuracy of RMA for the 2022 elections stood at 99.94%.
In May, the Comelec officially kicked off the RMA for 762 randomly selected clustered precincts and one online voting post for the 2025 national and local elections. It was slated to last up to 45 days.
During the RMA, 60 auditing teams from the Department of Education were tasked to check the performance of the automated counting machines (ACMs) and examine the ballots from the clustered precincts to validate their accuracy.
Section 29 of the Automated Election System (AES) Act states that 'there shall be a random manual audit in one precinct per congressional district randomly chosen by the Commission in each province and city' where the automated election system is used.
The RMA maintained a 99.9% accuracy rate since the 2010 automated elections, Garcia added. –NB, GMA Integrated News
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