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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.
No Praises Required; Just Apologize
Those critics of the poll automation project who directly caused unnecessary problems such as delays in its implementation have all conceded that the country’s first ever automated elections was a success. They rightly pointed out that none of their doomsday scenarios happened. I appreciate their acknolwedgment of the project’s success and their admission that they [...]
SC Upholds Poll Automation Contract; CenPeg, AESWatch Snub Source Code Review
Detractors of the ongoing effort to automate the elections in May can criticize all they want but at the end of the day there’s nothing they can do anymore at this point to stop the project. Yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed with finality a petition to nullify the contract between Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM. Voting 13-2, [...]
