MANILA, Philippines — The random manual audit of 1,145 clustered precincts showed that the audit of the presidential, vice-presidential, congressional, gubernatorial, and mayoral races held up against the accuracy rate determined by the National Statistics Office.
NSO representative Florante Varona said all five positions have an accuracy rate of 99.6 percent. “There was a variance of .4 percent,” he said in a press briefing Thursday.
Varona said the variance, the difference between the machine and manual count, was lower than the threshold of 1percent.
The random manual audit only managed to count 1,406 clustered precincts, which translated to about 500,000 votes. –Kristine L. Alave, Philippine Daily Inquirer