NO election results data will be lost with the shutdown of three Automated Election System (AES) servers of the Commission on Elections used in the May 9, 2022 polls.
Comelec Commissioner George M. Garcia made the assurance with the scheduled shutdown of the servers on Monday morning.
“All of the content of the servers will be preserved [by Comelec],” Garcia said in a Viber message.
In an advisory issued during the weekend, the Comelec announced the activity, to be done in the presence of political parties and citizen’s arms, will be streamed live on the official Comelec Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.
The event will not be available for media coverage since it will be held in secure data centers.
The affected Comelec servers include its Central Data Center in PLDT Vitro Taguig, Transparency Data Center in PLDT Vitro Parañaque, and the Backup Data Center on Data One in Quezon City.
The three servers stored the election results transmitted by the clustered precincts during the recently concluded polls.
“The public is hereby informed that the Commission on Elections on 30 May 2022 will commence the shutdown of the AES system and network infrastructure in relation to the 2022 National and Local Elections,” Comelec said.
Garcia urged the public to witness the event online as part of Comelec’s efforts to make its operation transparent to the public.
Comelec decided to shut down the servers following the successful proclamation of all the winning candidates in the May 2022 polls.
