Free elections for a free Philippines
James Jimenez is the Director of Comelec’s Education and Information Department and the go-to-guy for any question about elections. He hasn’t renewed his Mensa membership but they let him keep the extra IQ points that come free when you join them.
In this bit of writing he did on Facebook, he talks about the theory of [...]
Cesar Flores, President of Smartmatic Asia Pacific said that the last 13,580 units of PCOS machines arrived at the International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) on February 27 completing the required number of machines to be used for the May 10 automated elections.
“We are proud to announce that all the PCOS machines are already in the Philippines, and the implementation calender is being kept as planned” Flores said.
It is rather funny that the groups who were needling Smartmatic-TIM at every stage implementing poll automation have fallen silent these days.
They kept badgering Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM for the source code, but when it was made available, these guys didn’t even apply to get a copy of the source code.
Anyway, last Friday (February 26, 2010) it was announced that all of the Smartmatic-TIM machines that will be used in the country’s first ever automated polls was arriving two days before the February 28 deadline.
DJ Mo Twister shows people how to vote using an automated election machine
Certainly, the hoards of middlemen and brokers of industry of “winning at all costs” certainly don’t want automated elections to succeed because there is no way to manipulate the results. You can manipulate the voters, for sure, but that would be a costlier enterprise than just waiting for the ballots to arrive at the canvassing centers and doing their magic in the comfort of a hotel. Money won’t change hands for an assured win at the polls, or at least, not as much.
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