An election lawyer, who was once part of the Comelec as chief of staff of the late poll chief Sixto Brillantes Jr., says all these allegations all boil down to one thing: was there dagdag-bawas?
MANILA, Philippines – Allegations that the 2022 automated elections were rigged have not died down a year later, and among the recent issues raised by poll skeptics is the Commission on Elections’ use of a single private IP address to transmit results.Rappler approached election experts and long-trusted watchdogs, which have officially written to their members to explain in layman’s terms the nitty-gritty of the controversy.
It said the modems were brand new, and were purchased because thousands of modems were found defective during various tests ahead of election day. The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections , founded in the 1950s, takes pride as a pioneer in election monitoring in the Philippines. Its commitment to clean elections took center stage during the 1986 snap elections, which resulted in the ouster of dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Namfrel further laid out the likely scenario on election day last year: a telco service provider allocated a block of public IP addresses. Modems with the private IP address connected with the TSP’s infrastructure, and subsequently assigned a unique public IP address for the transmission of election returns. When the process was completed, the said unique public IP address was released and reassigned to another modem that needed to connect.
The hard fact, however, is that PPCRV’s parallel count yielded a 99.84% match rate between the physical ERs and electronically transmitted ones. “Namfrel finds the transmission and reception of some 39,512 ERs from as many VCMs deployed in the same number of clustered precincts within one hour from close of polls possible,” the group said.
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