SAYING it wanted 100 percent accuracy, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday said it would conduct a more comprehensive random manual audit (RMA) of votes in the May 2016 polls with the help of the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel).

The RMA is meant to determine if the vote counting machines (VCMs) supplied by election provider Smartmatic Corp. are counting the votes correctly, according to Commissioner Luie Tito Guia, chairman, RMA Committee.

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