Manila, May 12 -- The law-mandated Random Manual Audit (RMA) for the May 12 midterm elections is set to start on Wednesday in Pasay City, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday.

Dir. Abigail Claire Llacuna of the Comelec Education and Information Department said the manual auditing of 762 clustered precincts and online voting posts will take place at the Citadines Bay City Manila.

Llacuna, who is also part of the technical working group for the RMA, said they aim to finish the activity in 45 days.

The RMA is the manual examination of the ballots cast to validate the count of the vote-counting machines (VCM) used in the elections. It covers votes for senator, party-list group, congressional representative and mayor.

Section ...