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Help Ensure H.O.P.E; Be Prepared To Vote (0)
Ok so tomorrow is D-Day. I hope you’re all ready for our first ever automated elections. Let’s all do our part to ensure that it will proceed without any hitches. Well okay there will be hitches; that’s unavoidable. Let’s at least help minimize the problems. As voters we can help by going to the precincts [...]
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A Brief History Of Poll Automations In The Philippines (0)
A Brief History Of Poll Automation In The Philippines (condensed from the website Action for Economic Reforms ) Automated elections had been generally held as an ideal development in Philippine politics, after having experienced successive elections since 1987 plagued by violence, poll fraud and bitterly divisive electoral protests. But in the months leading to its [...]
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Too Late The Hero (0)
Disgusting. That’s what these complainers are. I’m of course referring those politicians who have come out with claims of being approached by individuals and groups offering to rig the elections in their behalf. I’m disgusted with these people because the fact that they came out with this piece of information only after the elections shows [...]
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More Improvements For Poll Automation (0)
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms has released its report on the conduct of the automated elections last May. It basically acknowledged that the use of the automated system did not result in failure of elections as predicted by many overly critical personalities but that much still needs to be done to make [...]
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Rebuttal To Doomsday Scenario (0)
The hopelessly paranoid are at it again spinning tales of conspiracies. Their latest (though not necessarily new) speculative scenario of doom is about the alleged plot to keep President Gloria Arroyo in power. Here’s an excerpt from abante-tonite.com report: Lumutang na umano ang tatlong senyales para magkaroon ng failure of election sa Mayo 10 at [...]
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Suspicious look at Smartmatic’s congratulatory gestures could put RP in a bad light (0)
Michael Alan Hamlin of the Manila Bulletin wrote in his Bottom Line column’s Not so Smartmatic opinion piece how 2008 Miss Universe and Smartmatic “Ambassador for Transparency” Dayana Mendoza spoke to reporters when the company brought her to the Philippines to congratulate Filipinos for successfully holding the country’s first automated elections. With Smartmatic hoping to sell the Philippine government about 76,000 PCOS machines “for the fire-sale price of P2 billion,” Mr. Hamlin describes, the backdrop is set for reading more from the words addressed to president-elect Noynoy Aquino that he had quoted from the undeniably candid Mendoza.
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Making the most of Smartmatic’s poll automation technology (0)
An opinion piece I critiqued yesterday had me thinking when the author said that the Comelec may have made “the mother of all bad deals.” This was told in the context of the poll body spending about Php 11 billion to run this year’s automated elections without necessarily owning the vote-counting machines.
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