The public may now do their own tallying of the election results even in their own homes. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday launched the public website www.pilipinaselectionresults2016.com, where the election results in each of the more than 90,000 polling precincts will be posted.
The public may now do their own tallying of the election results even in their own homes.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sunday launched the public website www.pilipinaselectionresults2016.com, where the election results in each of the more than 90,000 polling precincts will be posted.
“The ERs contain all the results from the president down to the last candidate. Which means, we can already total them even if we would not announce it,” Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez said in a press briefing.
“Anyone with the calculator with a lot of time and so minded could actually do that (computation). That’s precisely the point of this website. It democratizes the count so anyone can (pretend the winners),” he added.
Through the said website, the precinct results and canvassing results for every position to be contested will be made available to the public.
However, the website will not be providing an overall total number of votes as well as ranking among candidates.
“There will be totals for the votes received for that particular precinct only but not for the whole thing,” Jimenez said.
The poll official explained it is to safeguard against trending.
“The results will not be arriving simultaneously, then, all of a sudden, you’re showing a pronounced trend. That might be a problem. So what we have are the raw data only,” said Jimenez.
He added that the results from the website cannot be used as basis for the proclamation of winners as they will still have to be canvassed by the appropriate Board of Canvassers (BoCs).
Asked if the said website will be secured from hacking, Jimenez said: “It’s deployed in an isolated environment with very high security standard.”
The website will be immediately available after close of voting time on Election Day, May 9.
