Striking error on national canvass: number of registered voters higher than population

Its so interesting.I like it so much.

Smartmatic attributes it to "computation mistake", thus:

"An official of Smartmatic, one-half of the consortium that automated this year’s elections, on Thursday said computation mistake was the reason why the number of registered voters in the canvassing of votes was excessively higher than in the official Commission on Elections (Comelec) record... In a chance interview with reporters, Smartmatic-Asia president Cesar Flores said the computer added the number of registered voters coming from three servers, in the process also multiplying the number of voters by three." -GMANews.tv

Now, let us do the simple arithmetic ourselves based on the above explanation and data found in Comelec website and in the news item itself:

Server
Registered voters: 50,723,734
Overseas voters: 589,830
Total 51,313,564

Multiplying by 3:

Grand total: 153,940,692
Smarmatec Total: 153,902,003
Difference: 38,689

Our total does not equal the total of Smartmatic and this could be because the exact figures for the a) total local registered voters and b) the total overseas voters used may be different.

Nevertheless, note that if the explanation of the Smartmatic official for the computation mistake is correct, then the Smartmatic magic number of 153,902,003 should be multiples of 3 or exactly divisible by 3, which it is not.

When one admits of "computation mistake" in a 7+ billion-peso high-tech project that is supposed to count each vote correctly and do additions correctly in several levels, computation mistake is a serious thing to worry about.

Let us remember that the AES that made this "computation mistake" was designed to do the following computations with a very high level of reliability:

1. adding the total votes of candidates in 14 positions in each clustered precinct to get the total votes in a municipality
2. then adding the total votes from the municipalities and cities to get the total votes of each province
3. then adding the total votes from the provinces to get the total votes for the country

Remember that there are:

76,340 clustered precincts
14 positions in
4 levels (national, provincial, municipal, city) with
about 48,000 candidates

If a programming error can result in computation mistake in the simple task of displaying the total registered voters, is it not also possible that some programming errors with resulting computation mistakes did occur in the other computational routines?

This issue has to be addressed to clear all doubts and because we have another elections coming in 3 years.

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DE P***! E indi nman to kapanipaniwala e.. ako nga indi naka boto.. Mga imba sila! DE P*** ANG COMELEC.. ***

Smartmatic-its not smart & automatic....!!!

COMELEC must be kidding us!! They're thinking the people are too dumb to accept the results. This was probably what COMELEC and Smartmatic-TIM called as PERFECT ELECTION. Let your souls be burnt in hell!!!!

when will COMELEC answer this?

maybe extra ballots were used to make a candidate a winner. Thats too much discrepancy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, how dumb do you think we are COMELEC? Show the right counts!

Can anyone say "AUTOMATED FRAUD!"? This election is turning out to be a joke. Can't we jail the people in the COMELEC and Smartmatic-TIM (including foreign nationals)?

This doesn't make sense at all. Some people didn't vote so it wasn't counted ._."

The total number of valid ballots and the total number of voters who actualy voted are the same? That's impossible! I heard from my friends that there were ballots that were not accepted by the PCOS machine so it means there are votes not counted.

I think this is because there are some double registrants where some registrants with changed statuses we'ren't carried over or crossed out