Third of a series

TWO incredible incidents happened in the 2016 elections: the ComeLeak and the early electronic transmissions of election results a day before the May 9 elections. The latter event was the basis of Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd, in two privilege speeches in 2018, to spearhead the use of hybrid election system for 2022 elections (https://www.manilatimes.net/uploads/imported_images/uploads/2019/04/TWG-Report-JCOC-March18_jeff.pdf). The former is our focus of interest to figure out the effect of the ComeLeak or the hacking incident in the voters’ list of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) a few weeks before the 2016 elections.

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