Automated Election System: A Voter’s Assessment

I sure am glad I was able to vote. Never mind that it took me almost 4 hours just to get my hands on my ballot. The general consensus is that the whole process prior to the actual filling out of the ballot was a big disappointment. Not a few people were discouraged to vote. [...]

Help Ensure H.O.P.E; Be Prepared To Vote

Ok so tomorrow is D-Day. I hope you’re all ready for our first ever automated elections. Let’s all do our part to ensure that it will proceed without any hitches. Well okay there will be hitches; that’s unavoidable. Let’s at least help minimize the problems. As voters we can help by going to the precincts [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

PCOS Machines All Here

Here’s a little something for the doomsayers. The Commission on Elections has announced the completion of deliveries of all the Precint Count OPtical Scan Machines to be used in the elections in May. The final delivery was made February 27, one day before the deadline. Smartmatic delivered about 82,000 optical scan machines. With the completion [...]

Comelec Releases Testing Rules and Procedures, Ballot Templates

The Commission on Elections has come out with a resolution on “Rules and Procedures for the Testing and Sealing of The Precinct Count Optical Scan Machines.” Here are some of the more important points: SECTION 1. Period for testing and sealing of PCOS machines. – At least three (3) days before April 10, 2010 in [...]

PCOS Field Tests Set This Month

The Commission on Elections and Smartmatic held a press conference yesterday to reiterate their assurance that the automated election system is hack-proof. Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal says laboratory testing is now being conducted on the Precinct Count Optimal Scan machines in their warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna. Field tests are also set to commence before the [...]

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.

Smartmatic-TIM Statement on the latest delivery of PCOS machines and other equipment by Gene Gregorio, Spokesman

The latest batch of PCOS machines was released by the Bureau of Customs with dispatch and was immediately transported this morning to the Smartmatic TIM warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna.

Additionally, two more shipments of 2,400 and 8,000 units have arrived yesterday onboard vessels Horai Bridge S006 and Wan Hai 172 S018, respectively. They are currently being processed and will be delivered to the warehouse after release.

Another shipment of 8,000 units of PCOS onboard vessel Yong Da 185E is expected to arrive in the next few days.