By MIKHA FLORES
THE Commission on Elections has promised improved random manual audit (RMA) system for the May 13 elections with “new rules and innovations” using lessons learned from the 2010 elections and the mock polls last February.
Commissioner Christian Robert Lim, who is in charge of the manual audit, told VERA Files the RMA will be conducted right after the close of the balloting. “Unlike before when the results were brought to the municipal halls the next day, this time the audit will be done right at the precincts,” he said, referring to Comelec’s 2010 experience.
The balloting will close at 7 p.m. and the RMA will start soon after the election inspectors seal the ballot boxes and shut down the precinct count optical (PCOS) scan machines, marking the end of the voting process for the precinct.
The RMA will validate whether the PCOS machines correctly counted the votes.