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FACT-CHECK: May 9, 2022 polls marred by fraud, irregularities

Claim: COMELEC claims that the recently concluded 2022 Elections was successful Rating: FALSE Context: Not even a week after the May 9 elections, and with official canvassing results not even out, COMELEC said that the May 9

REPORT: VCM breakdown in 2022 polls much worse compared to previous ones

Election watchdog Kontra Daya stressed that the breakdown of vote counting machines (VCMs) today (May 9) is much worse compared to the past two election cycles. Comelec said at least 1,800 VCMs malfunctioned this year (Fernandez, 2022).

Numbers reported by Kontra Daya volunteers as of 4:00 PM, May 09, 2022

REPORT: Machine errors, disenfranchisement widespread in monitored cases in Southern Tagalog

Initial reports of Kontra Daya - Southern Tagalog reveal that 48% of the monitored and verified cases (55 out of 115) are on VCM errors. These include cases of rejected ballots, and failed or incomplete printing of

Kontra Daya’s initial assessment of the conduct of the May 9 elections

Update as of 3:30 p.m. Based on 464 verified reports nationwide, anti-fraud Kontra Daya and VoteReportPH said that the first seven hours of today’s election have been marred with disinformation, red-tagging, malfunctioning vote counting machines, and disenfranchisement

Kontra Daya calls on COMELEC to investigate AFP for text blasts to voters

Kontra Daya has documented several cases of red-tagging of certain candidates and party-list groups on the eve of and on election day. The perpetrators include the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) which is supposed to be

FACT-CHECK: Election officials can feed ballots into VCMs under certain circumstances but voters should assert their rights

CLAIM: Only the voter can feed their ballot into the vote-counting machine RATING: NEEDS CONTEXT CONTEXT: Amid numerous reports on social media of vote-counting machines breaking down, there have been calls on social media that only the