Five Presidentiables want 100% Precinct Manual Count

Ernesto Ordonez, chair of Alyansa Agrikultura, a farmer-fisherfolk coalition

composed of 42 federations and organizations representing all major
agricultural sectors, today said, they collected the signatures of five
presidentiables to throw their support to the snowballing demand for a
100% precinct manual count. The agricultural sector comprises 40% of the
voting population, or 16 million voters.

“We have the signatures of five presidential candidates declaring support

for the position recommended by Information Technology professionals last
April 13. These presidentiables are Former President Joseph Estrada,
Senator Jamby Madrigal, Eddie Villanueva, Nicanor Perlas, and J.C. delos
Reyes,” Ordonez said

Ordoñez explained: After the voting has been finished, the Board of
Election Inspectors will manually count the votes in 100% of the precincts
for president, vice president, and a local official selected at random such as
governor, mayor or congressman/congresswoman. This count will then be
compared to the computer count.

This same position was endorsed by the Management Association of the

Philippines, representing the business community, and the Alyansa
Agrikultura, representing the farmers and fisherfolk on April 14 and 15,
respectively.

An excerpt from the statement said: “If the counts are similar, then the
assumption is that the computer count is valid and not rigged. The votes for
all positions can then be transmitted as the basis for the proclamation of
the winning candidates. But if the votes are different, then the computer
count can be assumed to be not valid and possibly rigged. In these cases,
the count of all positions will then be undertaken. The manual count will be
the basis for the proclamation of the winning candidates.

“For the sake of credible elections and our democracy, we strongly

recommend that Comelec adopt this position.”