March 13th, 2010 by Malayang Halalan
Singapore included in automated polls for overseas absentee voting
By Pia Lee-Brago
The Philippine Star March 09, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to include Singapore in the conduct of automated elections for overseas absentee voting (OAV), the Philippine Embassy in Singapore said yesterday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Hong Kong was [...]
March 8th, 2010 by Malayang Halalan
If it’s good for the United Nations, it ought to be good for the Philippines.
After all criticism thrown at Smartmatic and Smarmatic-TIM, its international reputation doesn’t seem to be suffering one bit. Other countries continue to trust the company whose aim is to provide “technology for all”.
In this latest bit of news, the Republic of [...]
March 8th, 2010 by Malayang Halalan
Bathsheba Valenzuela considers herself an expert on automated voting and scoffs at people who say that using the 25-inch-long ballot and the voting machine is fraught with difficulties for senior citizens.
“It’s easy as long as you follow the instructions. I’m 58, yes, but why would it be difficult for me?” she said after participating in a mock election conducted by GMA News at SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City.
February 28th, 2010 by Malayang Halalan
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.
January 27th, 2010 by Malayang Halalan
Only a meteor slamming into the Philippines can cause a massive breakdown of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines resulting in a failure of automated elections, a congressman said Wednesday.
“I always believe that if a meteor hits the Philippines and knocks out all the machines, then we can go to manual and we will [...]
