Archive for October, 2009
Fearing Possibilities
Partylist group Akbayan has sounded the alarm again on cheating under the automated system. Here’s an excerpt from the gmanews.tv report: NGOs still unconvinced of ‘fraud-free’ automated polls ANDREO CALONZO, GMANews.TV 10/28/2009 | 10:29 PM Akbayan party-list group and other non-government organizations on Wednesday raised concern on the possibility of new forms of cheating that [...]
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Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez writes in his blog that the biggest threat to poll automation is not the science behind it but the negative press releases. You can be sure I’ll say he is spot on in his assessment. Indeed, there is an ongoing battle for people’s minds and it is one fought by poll [...]
Lozada… Pota
Self-described Information Technology expert Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada has raised an issue against the automated election system. Lozada points out that the PCOS system lacks what is called a ‘point of transaction acknowledgment’ or POTA. What’s POTA anyway? As Lozada defined it POTA is that piece of paper one gets after an electronic transaction like when [...]
Automated Elections Procedure On Video
The Commission on Elections has started providing information on how easy it is to vote using the new automated system. Watch these video: Now to reiterate. Voting With The Modern Ballot Is Easy Do Not Over-Vote Thre you have it. Just remember the most important thing — whether under a manual or automated system — [...]
Comelec Extends Voters’ Registration Hours
I accompanied two of my nieces at the Comelec Registration Office in Quezon City last weekend and I found confirmation that it’s crunch time! With less than 2 weeks left for the voters’ registration, people are now rushing to get themselves listed. The problem now for new applicants is how to keep cool while dealing [...]
PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) Machines – Unboxed
We took on the invitation of Smartmatic to see how the voting machines worked. But I went one step further. Being a self-professed geek, I asked the Smartmatic demo people if I could do an “unboxing” article in the spirit of Gizmodo and other gadget publications out there. After some friendly persuasion and assurances that [...]
Track Record of Failure vs. Evidence of Success
Just the other day a friend of mine and I had a discussion about poll automation. My friend was against it because, as he put it, poll automation will just lead to massive cheating. I couldn’t say that his concern is invalid after all electoral fraud is really a big concern. However, I think a [...]
A Brief History Of Poll Automations In The Philippines
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 [...]
Comelec Releases Source Code To Systest Labs
The Commission on Elections has announced that the review of the source code that will be installed on the automated counting machines will be held in February. Comelec says the source code will still have to undergo testing by “an established international certification entity.” In this case that’s Colorado based IT consulting firm Systest Labs. [...]
An Important Date: Oct 31
If you’ve just recently hit 18 you should know that you now have an additional right aside from those that give you permission to party, listen to Emo music and play dumb. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you probably don’t deserve it anyway so just leave and go back to whatever [...]
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