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The Commission on Elections has yet to begin counting votes for this year’s elections, disproving a circulating graphic depicting Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s landslide victory.

The bogus graphic posted on Facebook by Joshua Chua on May 9 imitated Rappler’s layout of its live election results.

The image showed that Marcos led with 22,259,467 votes while Robredo trailed behind with 10,425,315.

Counting of votes will begin after the polls close at 7 p.m. on May 9, according to the Commission on Elections.

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