Archive for April, 2010
Parallel Manual Count = Bad News
A tabloid columnist writes that the paralel manual count being pushed by the Makati Business Club and some presidential candidates led by Senator Noynoy Aquino deserves a second look. He argues that if the parallel manual count can help ensure that the objective of clean and honest elections will be achieved then “by all means [...]
Source Code Review and the Improbability of Hacking
The National telecommunications Commission has assured that there will be no hacking of the reslts of the country’s first ever automated elections. An NTC official explains this clearly in this manilatimes.net report: “There’s no way to hack [the results] because it is a private network [that is behind the country’s first automated elections]. The network [...]
Poll Automation Updates
The Commission on Elections has reported that at least 54 percent of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines has been delivered to various regional hubs. This translates to close to 42,000 units. More than 35,000 of these units have been delivered to Visayas and Mindanao while more than 6,500 to Luzon. The law specifies [...]
Comelec: Automation Preparations 100% On Target
Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM have reached another milestone in their task of automating the elections in May. The following is good news for everyone concerned. I certainly the perennially paranoid, the doomsayers, and the egotistical Liberal Party will just take it for what it is and not pollute the atmosphere again with their drivel. Here’s the [...]
Election Offense
When I started this blog I made a promise to myself that I will keep it focused on poll automation and nothing else. That means political punditry and commentaries on political personalities will not be a feature of this space. However, one particular candidate and his group recently caught my ire and because of this [...]
Really Not As Easy To Cheat As You Might Think
A reader who goes by the name of “programmer” left the following comment on my post entitled “Easily Hackable? Seriously?” programmer April 11, 2010 • 4:34 pm (Edit) No one is auditing and showing us the Smartmatic Datacenter. Yes, PCOS = bullet-proof. But how about the back door? Who will audit, contest (and recount) the [...]
Candidate Calls For “Voter Power” Then Goes Trapo
Liberal Party senatorial candidate Attorney Alex Lacson, who first came into public attention with his naive booklet entitled “12 Little Things Every Filipino Can Do to Help Our Country” has come out with a rather idealistic recommendation on how voters can help prevent a failure of elections. Lacson says the electorate need only show their [...]
Logic Fail: Use of UV Scanners Equals Fake Ballots
I must admit there are valid concerns being raised about the upcoming automated elections. One of these is the overpricing of the ballot secrecy folders, which was thankfully discovered in the nick of time. I sure hope the Comelec will be more careful with future transactions. Sadly, there are also quite a number of issues [...]
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