SENATOR Aquilino Pimentel 3rd is willing to investigate the allegation of a former election official that the 2013 mid-term elections were electronically doctored, if the accuser could present evidence to back his claim.

Melchor Magdamo, executive assistant to former Comelec Chairman Jose Melo, said last week that an anomaly in the digital lines in the automated poll machines was discovered by experts from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) during a manual audit of the elections.

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