Archive for March, 2010
Liberal Party: So Full Of Itself
The Liberal Party led by its presidential candidate Senator Noynoy Aquino is turning out to be one big paranoid and fear mongering bunch. It’s that or this group is just so full of themselves they have it in their head that their candidates can only lose if cheated. Here’s part of the report from inquirer.net. [...]
More Positive Developments In Poll Automation Project
The Commission on Elections must be on cloud nine right now. Why wouldn’t it? A survey conducted by Social Weather Stations show that more Filipinos trust that the agency can protect the elections in May from sabotage. (From Philippine Star) To the test statement, “The Comelec can be trusted to make sure that there is [...]
Half Empty/Half Full
The Commission on Elections successfully conducted mock polls at the Senate earlier today. Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez says the exercise showed that each voter can complete the whole process of casting their vote in 5 to 7 minutes. He says at least one voter, an elderly person, took 11 minutes to vote. The mock polls [...]
Lawyer Suggests Charges Against Fearmongers
President Gloria Arroyo has vowed to keep her distance from the election process. The president issued the statement, to quell fears of an alleged plot to keep her in office beyond her term. Of course, as we all know, no amount of convincing coming from President Arroyo — especially from her — would be enough [...]
Updates On Ballot Printing, PCOS Machine Testing
The Commission on Elections will be working overtime to finish the printing of ballots. This means no Holy Week vacation for everyone involved in the printing process. Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal says a total of 750,000 ballots are produced everyday. An increase in the daily output is expected as soon as the Comelec plugs in [...]
Rebuttal To Doomsday Scenario
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 [...]
Easily Hackable? Seriously?
Senatorial candidate Jose de Venecia III claims the automated election system can be easily hacked by a lean team of about 30 hackers. The self-proclaimed IT expert whose claim to fame was an expose on a broadband deal that he himself used to be a party to says these hackers can easily get into Comelec’s [...]
PCOS Machines All Here
Here’s a little something for the doomsayers. The Commission on Elections has announced the completion of deliveries of all the Precint Count OPtical Scan Machines to be used in the elections in May. The final delivery was made February 27, one day before the deadline. Smartmatic delivered about 82,000 optical scan machines. With the completion [...]
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