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Suspicious look at Smartmatic’s congratulatory gestures could put RP in a bad light
Michael Alan Hamlin of the Manila Bulletin wrote in his Bottom Line column’s Not so Smartmatic opinion piece how 2008 Miss Universe and Smartmatic “Ambassador for Transparency” Dayana Mendoza spoke to reporters when the company brought her to the Philippines to congratulate Filipinos for successfully holding the country’s first automated elections. With Smartmatic hoping to sell the Philippine government about 76,000 PCOS machines “for the fire-sale price of P2 billion,” Mr. Hamlin describes, the backdrop is set for reading more from the words addressed to president-elect Noynoy Aquino that he had quoted from the undeniably candid Mendoza.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 — [...]
What Yellow Button?!?
I’m really beginning to hate all things yellow. On top of my “hate list” now is this “yellow fever” infecting the nation. What’s with that, really? A revered democracy icon dies and her son suddenly becomes a top choice for the presidency. Where’s the logic in that? Anyway, yesterday I found out about a so-called [...]
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