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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 [...]
Smartmatic, Comelec Demos PCOS System; Lawmakers Satisfied
Comelec and Smartmatic have once again proven that the PCOS system is secure. The poll body and the PCOS provider held a demonstration at the Cabuyao, Laguna warehouse where the PCOS machines are stored for safekeeping. The demonstration included a test on data transmission. The test went smoothly, leading House committee on Suffrage and Electoral [...]
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 [...]
