The Commission on Elections (Comelec) owes the voting public an explanation on the use of unauthorized servers and the unauthorized introduction of a script into the transparency server, which puts the credibility and integrity of elections in question.

The transparency server has been in use since the 2010 National and Local Elections. While sanctioned by the Comelec, there is absolutely no reference to its use in the Automated Election Law. Each precinct count optical scan (PCOS), renamed vote counting machine (VCM), is supposed to directly transmit the vote counts to the city or municipality canvassing and consolidation server (C/M CCS) to which a PCOS/VCM is assigned, and the servers of the majority party, the dominant minority party, the Kapisanan ng Brodkasters sa Pilipinas and the accredited citizens’ arm. As implemented, the PCOS/VCM transmits the election return it generates to the C/M CCS, to the central server, and the transparency server. Comelec accredited recipients receive the election returns via the transparency server or its mirror but not in the format as transmitted from the PCOS/VCM. The election returns undergo format conversion from “election markup language” to “comma separated values,” the format accredited recipients receive.

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