THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) blamed the glitch in its transparency server on Monday night, May 13, on the deluge of data transmitted.
Commissioner Marlon Casquejo, head of the Comelec - 2019 Steering Committee, said it was a case of bottlenecking in the data inflow.
"During the elections, at around 6 p.m., when the VCMs transmitted the results, the gates or the so called FTP (File Transfer Protocol), received a deluge of data," he explained in a press conference.
"Under normal situations, that gate should remain open. But when the results came in bulk, there was a bottleneck. There was a delay in the picking up of the results," he added.
The glitch resulted in delays in the quick count being conducted by media networks dubbed as "partial and unofficial".
Casquejo also said the brief decrease in the number of transmitted ERs as reflected in the Comelec transparency server was caused by a Java error on Tuesday morning.
The reflected transmitted ER went down from 92.89 percent at 5 a.m. to 49.76 percent at 6 a.m. Tuesday.
"The technical group of transparency server observed a Java error. It was corrected again by just turning it off and on or reset," he said.
Casquejo assured that there were no changes in the actual data of received Election Returns.
"It didn't slow down, it didn't go down. It was a technical glitch," he said.
The problems in the Comelec transparency server have since been resolved. The server is based at the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) headquarters. (HDT/SunStar Philippines)