Bayan Muna calls for manual counting amid questions on ACM software

Uphold transparency and ballot sanctity tonight with manual counting

STATEMENTMay 12, 2025With the verified incident reports gathered so far, there is more than enough empirical basis to call for manual counting at the precinct level before electronic transmission.For one, there are cases of “overvoting” even if there were only slight smudges in the shaded circle. Certain voters have also complained about voter receipts showing national and local candidates they did not vote for. As regards the party-list race, t…

Bayan Muna calls for manual counting amid questions on ACM software

Residents wait for their turn to vote for the 2025 midterm national and local elections at the Zonta Elementary School in Davao City on Monday, 12 May 2025. MindaNews photo by MANMAN DEJETO MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 12 May) – Bayan Muna has called for a manual counting of votes cast in Monday’s midterm national and local elections to prevent the possibility of widespread fraud and voter disenfranchisement. The group was reacting to reports th…

Manual counting urged amid ACM anomalies

MANILA – Progressive coalition Makabayan is calling for manual counting amid reports of uncounted votes—due to “undervoting and overvoting”— that surfaced today on election day, and the reported change in software version of automated counting machines (ACM). “If the software used is questionable, the results of elections are also questionable. If the machine fails to read the vote properly, it is a voter disenfranchisement and a violation of ou…