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Page23:… NAMFREL’s IT team pointed out the VCM System Hash Code shown during the demo did

not
match what was published during the second Final Trusted Build. In an email-letter to Commissioner
Marlon Casquejo dated 23 March 2022, NAMFREL pointed out this discrepancy…

…., the source code that NAMFREL saw and reviewed during the SCR (source code review) could be
different from what was used by the VCMs on election day. In layman’s terms, the software used on the
VCMs on election day could have been different from the software reviewed by NAMFREL and other IT
observers during the SCR because the source code could have been edited in the meantime…

Based on these points, NAMFREL wrote a follow-up email-letter dated 25 March 2022 to Commissioner
Casquejo requesting for the following [items above, sic]… NAMFREL received no response to its 23 and
25 March letters [addressed to Casquejo].

EXAMPLE: One NAMFREL chapter relayed the report of a volunteer, who said that in a voting center,
the SD card of a VCM was removed and replaced with a different one. A volunteer followed the car
where the SD card was loaded. The car ended up in place of the incumbent mayor

Namfrel has posted on its website an 89-page Final Report: 2022 National-Local Elections. Pages 23-24
detail its discovery of discrepancies.

The vote counting machine (VCM) source code differed from the hash code. This indicated possible
program tampering. Rio has been questioning the deluge of 20 million-plus votes for president and VP
an hour from balloting’s end last May 9. Physically impossible, the electronic communication engineer
says. At their close at 7 p.m. on May 9, the 107,345 precincts had first to complete nine Comelec steps
before transmitting VCM counts to the Transparency Server.

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