By MIKHA FLORES
THE automated counting of votes in the May 13 elections proved 99.9747 percent accurate, according to results of a random manual audit (RMA) of votes in more than 200 precincts nationwide.
The 99.9747 percent accuracy rate is slightly higher than the percentage reported in the 2010 elections, but still falls short of the 99.995 percent rate set by the Commission on Elections, which the RMA Chair says is understandable as machine and human appreciation will never be the same.
In the 2010 presidential election, RMA results registered an accuracy rate of 99.6 percent.
“Machine and people will never be the same. You cannot ever bed the AES (automated election system) and the manual count and come up with the perfect match because there is always the human factor to consider when the manual system…is concerned,” said Ambassador Henrietta De Villa, the Chair of the RMA Committee.
