On Nov. 3, 2022, Eliseo Rio Jr., Augusto Lagman, and Franklin Ysaac filed a 'politically neutral urgent petition' in the Supreme Court alleging that it was 'highly improbable if not impossible' to count over 20 million votes within the first hour—from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.—after the polls were closed in the May 9, 2022, presidential election. Since then up to now, traditional and social media have furiously raised this intriguing question in various forms and shades: Is the Smartmatic election system procured by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) vulnerable to rigging, hacking, cheating, fraud, and/or preloading of data? DURING THE SAID ELECTION (AND MANY OTHERS), voters shaded the ovals near the names of the candidates in printed paper ballots.

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