2022 polls: Where are we on issues of VCM 'discrepancy,' transmission logs?

Explainer on where the automated-election-fraud allegations stood in March 2023. It records that COMELEC published vote-counting machine transmission logs on 23 March 2023 showing the first machine transmitting at 7:08 pm on 9 May 2022, and that both former ICT secretary Eliseo Rio's group and NAMFREL chairman Lito Averia disputed that the published files were transmission logs, saying they lacked the carrier, IP address and SIM data such logs would carry, a characterisation COMELEC rejected. It reports that COMELEC put the final number of machines that broke down on election day at 1,310, under 1% of the 106,174 deployed; that the random manual audit led by the Legal Network for Truthful Elections found 99% of audited ballots read accurately while PPCRV's parallel count matched 98.6% of validated printed returns; and that the ‘constant 47% ratio’ between the two leading candidates reflects the law of large numbers, a pattern also observed in 2013 and 2016. It further records that NAMFREL's December 2022 report on the 2022 polls noted that the vote-counting machine system hash code shown at a demonstration did not match the one published at the second final trusted build; that the testing firm Pro V&V attributed the difference to a typographical error made when the hash value was entered manually into the certification documents; and that NAMFREL's written request to COMELEC for the underlying documentation and an independent verification of all hash codes had not been granted as of publication. Averia noted that those citing the report omitted its conclusion that NAMFREL observed no anomalies in the count.