PPCRV seeks more volunteers ahead of midterm elections

The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) is calling for more volunteers, less than three months before the 2025 midterm elections.

In a radio interview, PPCRV national communications director Ana Singson said the organization is still recruiting volunteers for various operations ahead of the national and local elections.

“We are still in need of volunteers… Please volunteer,” Singson said.

“We are still recruiting, as our target is to reach 350,000 to 450,000 volunteers for the 2025 elections,” she added.

Singson explained that volunteers will be involved in several activities, including source code review for the automated election system, public bidding, ballot printing, and the delivery of election paraphernalia.

PPCRV volunteers will also assist with poll-related tasks, such as manning the Voters Assistance Desk in polling precincts, helping voters find their precincts, and ensuring that election rules and procedures are strictly followed on election day.

"We have many things to do, as we are very much involved in these elections,” she said, noting that becoming a PPCRV volunteer does not have any specific qualifications.

However, she emphasized that volunteers must remain neutral and not support any political candidates.

"What we are only requiring is that they must not support or campaign for any candidate, as we are an impartial group,” Singson said.

Interested individuals can approach their local PPCRV coordinators in their parishes to sign up, according to Singson.

PPCRV is a parish-based volunteer group numbering in the hundreds of thousands, working hand-in-hand with the clergy for Clean, Honest, Accurate, Meaningful, and Peaceful Elections.

Since the 2010 national elections, the PPCRV has been conducting the Unofficial Parallel Count, collecting physical copies of pre-transmission election returns from automated counting machines throughout the country.

These are brought to the PPCRV Command Center, formerly located at the Pope Pius XII Center, from where the country’s first electronic transmission results were broadcast to the world.

In the PPCRV Command Center, these election returns are encoded and then compared with the corresponding transmitted return to check for consistency.