COMELEC Halalan 2013 mobile application (“COMELEC App”) created by ABS-CBN was finally released, which aims to access to election-related information and services through mobile phones and devices running on Android. the app requires Android 2.2, assists searching for precincts or polling centers and allows a PINOY voter to check status of his registration and eligibility for […]
MoreIT PINOYs can relax a little bit as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced that the testing of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines had resumed and that the results were “perfect.” this came after recent news of test failures due to mis-configuration CF cards that caused the PCOS to incorrectly read the ballots. “Now […]
MorePhilippine’s first ever automated elections could be leading to a major disastrous failure as it was found out that a week before the May 10 elections the CF cards used in the PCOS machines aren’t working!!!! this came after test results showed the at the CF cards (contains specific precinct information), incorrectly read the names and votes […]
MoreIT PINOY has been following the Philippine Poll Automation for quite some time now, it’s Absentee Overseas voting in Hongkong and Singapore started slow but was relatively smooth. Philippine President Candidate Senator Manny Villar and his VP candidate Sen. Loren Legarda, got the very first votes cast in the automated system but the results will […]
Morethere have been a buzz that a huge shipment of signal jammers is to arrive the country, which raises suspicion especially from COMELEC since this might be used against the poll automation for the IT PINOYs, a signal jammer is a small, low-powered transmitter that interferes with receivers in an area around the jammer. the […]
Morethe 2010 Philippine poll automation would push through even with the disqualification of firms bidding to provide automated counting machines, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said yesterday. “We have not yet reached a situation where we would opt for partial automation. We have yet to declare a failed bidding,” COMELEC chairman Jose Melo stated. COMELEC […]
MorePhilippine Senator Alan Peter Cayetano just filed a resolution to grant Php100Mil to IT PINOYs who can hack the automated poll system. this is in response to COMELEC‘s claims that the automated poll system set to run for next year’s national elections is hack-proof. “COMELEC should cancel the contract, save the P11 billion and sue […]
More“There may be legitimate concerns [on automation] but some suspicions paint a scenario na hindi dapat paniwalaan ang automation [that automation should not to be trusted]. It is a closed issue whether or not to push through with automation. We at the Comelec believe it’s about time that we trust the automated system for elections […]
Morethe commission on elections (COMELEC) recently laid out it’s plans to automate the 2010 elections. all i can say is – it’s about time! did you know that the COMELEC automation law was passed as early as around 1997? RA8436 and later an amendment RA9369, “authorizing the commission on elections to use an automated election […]
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