This year, 2022, the transparency server by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has reached 98 percent within 24 hours. Evidently, regional factors provided the leading candidates advantages and disadvantages, but the convergence of these proved to be sufficient to give them a majority of the votes, the first time since at least the 1981 elections. This demonstrates what Google Trends has been saying all along: A spike in a particular topic does not reflect that a topic is somehow "popular" or "winning." Besides, less than 70 percent of Filipinos have internet access as of 2022, compared to over 90 percent in South Korea. If the 2022 election demonstrated anything thus far, it has resolved both the transparency blackout dubbed as the "7-hour glitch" in 2019 and the slower pace of electoral returns' transmission experienced in 2016. Disclaimer: All figures used here for the 2022 election were derived from the partial and unofficial count available in the COMELEC Transparency Server. Over 200 public school teachers were protesting at the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Thursday as Electoral Board (EB) members in Cotabato City were allegedly replaced by Islamic teachers from Madaris schools who did not receive training nor certification from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). In relation to this, Meta recently released a statement regarding its preparations for the 2022 Philippine elections. Read more in our articles including "68-32 Magic or Law of Large Numbers?" and "Alleged replacement of DOST-trained teachers for elections in Cotabato under investigation".
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Jan 17, 2022This year, 2022, the transparency server by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has reached 98 percent within 24 hours. Evidently, regional factors provided the leading candidates advantages and disadvantages, but the convergence of these proved to be sufficient to give them a majority of the votes, the first time since at least the 1981 elections.
This demonstrates what Google Trends has been saying all along: A spike in a particular topic does not reflect that a topic is somehow "popular" or "winning." Besides, less than 70 percent of Filipinos have internet access as of 2022, compared to over 90 percent in South Korea. If the 2022 election demonstrated anything thus far, it has resolved both the transparency blackout dubbed as the "7-hour glitch" in 2019 and the slower pace of electoral returns' transmission experienced in 2016. Disclaimer: All figures used here for the 2022 election were derived from the partial and unofficial count available in the COMELEC Transparency Server.
Our coverage of 2022 elections includes: "68-32 Magic or Law of Large Numbers?"; "Alleged replacement of DOST-trained teachers for elections in Cotabato under investigation"; "Majority of Filipinos swayed by social media influencers, even in politics". Each article provides unique insights and information.