THE camp of vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will make a formal request on Wednesday to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to open its Automated Election System, in a bid to determine whether there is election fraud committed by the poll body.
In a press conference, lawyer Jose Amor Amorado, Marcos' head for vice presidential candidate's Quick-Count Center, said only a system audit will show if poll results were not affected by the alteration of the script of Comelec's transparency server.
"By tomorrow, May 18, in the early afternoon, 1 p.m., we are filing a strongly-worded demand letter to the Comelec, regarding the opening of the system for a systems audit," Amorado said.
"Doing so will finally put to rest whether or not the changing of the '?' to 'ñ' that they tampered with resulted to something else," he added.
Amorado maintained that their camp is confident that Marcos will win in the vice presidential race.
Based on their own count of 100 certificates of canvass (COCs) out of 108 COCs, Amorado noted that as of 3:15 p.m., Marcos received 13,506,005 votes, compared to its close candidate, Camarines Sur Representative Leni Robredo, who got 13,346,009 votes.
In the tally released by Marcos' camp, Robredo was trailing by 117,939 votes.
But based on partial and unofficial count released by the Comelec transparency server, Robredo is leading the vice presidential derby.
Accusing the poll body of rigging the elections, Amorado said they now have evidence of other irregularities but they are still collating and validating them.
Amorado said the documents they have would be made public as soon as they get the necessary clearance.
He said that among the issues they would raise was the Provincial Board of Canvassers of Laguna's request to the Comelec to convene again to "correct the discrepancies" in the manually uploaded election results reflected in their provincial COC.
Amorado also noted the "highly irregular" number of undervotes in the vice presidential race. Meaning, no candidates in particular position were picked by the voters during the elections.
"We have collated unusually high percentages of undervotes for the vice presidential race in all parts of the country -- from Region 1 to the National Capital Region and all the way to Region 13 and the Armm (Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao)," Amarado said.
"Overall, there were more than 3.3 million undervotes in the 2016 vice presidential derby and in a highly contested race, we consider the same highly suspicious," he added.
Meanwhile, Amorado said Marcos would send representatives to the hearing of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System, which will investigate the unauthorized change in script of a transparency server for automated elections. (Sunnex)