By Perfecto T. Raymundo, Jr.
QUEZON CITY — The Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan (ANIM), the Church Leaders Council for National Transformation (CLCNT) and the Civil Society (CS) on Wednesday (May 21) revealed their findings and analysis of the results of the recently concluded May 12 National and Local Elections (NLE).
In a press conference at Max’s Restaurant Quezon Memorial Circle, the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) presented the
“Eight (8) Areas of The Election Results that are very disturbing”.
The summary of observations and findings by the ANIM and the CLCNT show that all the Election Returns (ERs) from the precincts nationwide were not sent directly to PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media, but were sent first to an intermediary server, the Data Center 3, that consolidated the ERs from the precincts before they were sent to PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media.
This was in violation of Comelec’s own Comelec Resolution 11098, Annex B (ACM Operation Procedures dated Dec. 13, 2024) where it was clearly stated that when the “Start Transmission” button of the ACM at the precinct is tapped, the transmission of the ERs will proceed to the following servers:
— MBOC (city/municipal), Central Server, Citizen’s ARMM Server 1, Citizen’s ARMM Server 2, Media Server, Dominant Majority Server, and Dominant Minority Server.
Data Center 3 Server was not listed as among those to receive ERs from the ACMs.
Data Center 1 is an illegal, unlawful server.
Comelec, thru its Data Center 3, was the only one that performed the consolidation of all ERs from precincts nationwide, without the presence or participation of PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media.
There was a long delay before Comelec
Present in the press conference were the PPCRV, and Namfrel.
According to Eric Alviar, Namfrel Secretary General, the delay was around 2 hours from the closing of voting period.
The ANIM asked What really happened during those 2 hours when the PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media were blind as to the election results from precincts nationwide, when only Comelec had exclusive access and control to the results?
The Comelec, thru Data Center 3, merely supplied PPCRV, Namfrel and the Media with the consolidated ERs data from precincts nationwide, which the latter used for their respective Tallies of ERs.
The Comelec was the only source of the complete ERs data from precincts nationwide.
The PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media did not have any other independent source of the complete ERs from precincts nationwide apart from the ones supplied by Comelec.
A vote discrepancy of around 5 million votes was discovered by Rappler and other Media teams.
Comelec was the only one who conducted the “cleaning” or “paglilinis” process of the vote discrepancy.
It deleted around 5 million votes.
PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media were neithet present nor involved in the clean-up process.
Thereafter, Comelec merely supplied to PPCRV, Namfrel, and the Media the cleaned or corrected data files.
Thousands of voters complained that their VVPATs or voter’s receipts did not reflect the list of candidates they voted for.
“May nadagdag. May nabawas. Many voters also complained that the ballots issued to them were pre-shaded, or where the names of certain candidates were already shaded. Comelec still has to issue the official data of the total numbers of these complaints,” ANIM said.
In the 2019 midterm elections, a total of 1,170,331 official ballots had overvotes.
Meaning, 1,170,331 voters were disenfranchised in the election.
In this 2025 midterm elections, Namfrel reported that there was 17,028,780 overvotes.
Namfrel said that from 2010 to 2022 elections, the overvotes averaged only at 1.5% to 2.5%, but for this 2025 election, the overvotes reached 29.89%.
“Should this be a cause for serious concern for all of us?” ANIM asked.
The group noted that the Comelec changed the program which was installed in the ACM and used an “updated” version 3.5.0 that did not go through the local source code review and inderpendent certification, as required by law, that is, Section 12 of R.A. 9369.
They added that the Comelec made the change without notice to the public, without explaining why it had to “update” the program, and what changes were made in the updated version.
Also present in the press conference were former Capt. Roberto Yap, Lead Convenor of ANIM, Fr. Tony Labiao, of CLCNT, and Atty. Alex Lacson, ANIM/CS.
Likewise present were Bishop Colin Bagaforo, of Caritas Ph, CLCNT; Bp Robbie Gaa, of CLCNT; Bishop Ephraim Tendero, of CLCNT, PCEC; Bishop Noel Pantoja, National of Director PCEC, CLCNT; Fr. Wilmer Tria, Sec Gen of CLCNT; Fr. Karel San Juan, President of CEAP; Jun Fernandez, of CLCNT; Advocates for National Interest (ANI) members; ANIM members; Brig. Gen. Eliseo Rio, of TNTrio;
Aaron Pedro, of SANLAKAS; PAHRA; Conference of Major Superiors in the Philippines (CMSP); Edna Aquino and Josephine S Tobias, of SOTM; Adm. Danilo Abinoja ‘74 (Ret. ); Fred Santos, of SADETA; Atty. Ona Caritos, Lente Executive Director; Edwin Fernandez, of UPVd; Gen. Generoso Senga (Ret.), of ANIM; Bobby Ticson, of GTTAN; Eugene Gonzales, of Senior on the Move (SOTM);
Lito Averia, NAMFREL Chairman; Mina Bergara, of CGG/CCGG; John Dela Cruz, of PUNLA/CS; Atty. Mel Magdamo, of TNTRio; Ronald Unay, of ANIM; Fernando Gonzales; Ernie Hernandez, of S4S; Danny Ricohermoso, of PAC; former Sen. Kit Tatad; Orlando Sanguyo, of GWFANI; Maj. Gen. Wilfredo Franco (Ret.), of ANIM; Tita Flor Santos, of ORIANG; Carol B. Benavides, of S4SAI; Gelli Marcelino and Digs Arcilla, of Kontra Daya; Dr. Soc Reyes, of Center for Legislative Development; Siony Binanira, of WO; Dr. Maricar Limpin, Rovik Obanil, Anabel Julian Obanil, Vim A. Santos, Alejandro T. Camagay, of ANIM; Tess dela Cruz, Edil Guyano, of CLCNT; Alex Aquino, of IBON Foundation; and Rene Valencia, of ANIM. ###
