Automated Elections Fears

The Commission on Elections is right in identifying fear as the greatest danger to automation. Just consider what’s out there in the news  on the poll automation project — the dangers of hacking, delays in preparations, the inevitability of electoral fraud, and worst of all failure of elections.
While it is okay to raise concerns, those [...]

SWS survey says People Power if elections fail

The automated election system is built with redundant security features and back up systems that is intended to counter any possibility of sabotage.

SEO Experiment: Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Gilbert Teodoro, Richard Gordon

The number of people reading, writing or talking about the automated election in May is rising but is still far from ideal. More people should already be discussing poll automation by this time. This is important because any and all possible issues regarding this should be ironed out before — not during and after — [...]

More PCOS Machines delivered today as Comelec sees delays in ballot printing

This morning, some 10,400 PCOS or Automated Counting Machines will be delivered at the door step of the Commission on Elections at the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila. This brings up the total number of voting machines delivered to 15,320.

Another 8,000 machines is due to arrive at one of Manila’s ports and around 17,000 have left the manufacturing plant in Shanghai. Added together, a total of 40,320 will have been delivered before January ends and this is about half of the total 82,000 PCOS machines that will be supplied to the Comelec for the 2010 automated polls.

Philippine government website hacking, advertisement for new racket by “hacking syndicate”?

What is shocking is that Gregorio said that their security experts have tipped them off that hacking syndicates are using news of the government website hackings to claim that they can hack the automated polling system.

Automated Elections Will Push Through

Some people are concerned the automation of the 2010 elections will not push through. I really can’t blame them since the Comelec itself has reportedly admitted the project is already delayed by at least a month.
Well, the commission says there’s nothing to worry about. Automated Elections will definitely push through. Don’t believe me? Then watch [...]

Wowowee Trumps 2010 Philippine Elections In Google Search

Just last week I discovered that the number of Google searches for  ‘philippine automated elections’, ‘2010 elections’ and other related keywords is so low the figure doesn’t even show up on Google’s keyword tool.

This simply means very few people or worse no one is interested enough to search about it. I thought that can’t be [...]