PPCRV suspends ops for a day due to exhaustion

The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Sunday suspended its canvassing of votes cast in last Monday’s elections, citing the exhaustion of its volunteers. “Our servers are still working. We just temporarily stopped the canvassing because we also have to rest," said Ana de Villa Singson, PPCRV’s director for media communications. The suspension marked the first time the PPCRV failed to release updates on the transmission since it started its operations last Monday night shortly after the voting period for the first nationwide automated elections closed. The PPCRV has been conducting its operations at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Manila. The PPCRV, which has been tapped by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as the official election watchdog and verifies the votes in the clustered precincts, is conducting a tally of votes in the presidential, vice presidential and senatorial candidates in some 76,475 clustered precincts. The election watchdog, which originally targeted to finish their operations last Friday, had extended their target deadline to end their operations on Tuesday. Operations would resume Monday, according to PPCRV secretary general Bro. Clifford Sorita. Sorita, however, said the encoding of election returns (ERs) are still ongoing. He said the PPCRV already encoded 40 percent of the ERs that they are supposed to receive under the random manual audit. - KBK, GMANews.TV