more PINOYs working abroad might just have a chance to vote as Philippine congress proposes opening up the overseas absentee voting – online. “We should go to Internet voting. Mailing ano pa yan eh. let’s go international through internet voting,” Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said as he also showed a report that only 300k of […]
MoreIT PINOYs might be surprised to know that according to Philippine Election Commissioner, Gregorio Larrazabal, the recent national elections is now being considered by other countries as a model for successful automated elections. “Surprisingly, the common reaction was: ‘You’re from the Philippines? Great job. How did you do it?’” Larrazabal said. Larrazabal’s statement drew disbelief and […]
Morein the recent automated elections, IT PINOYs saw how technology played its part in ensuring the success of the event as well as better ways to deliver updates, one of these that “came to life” was @PCOSmachine!“I am a PCOS machine that’s part of the Philippines’ 1st automated elections,” @PCOSmachine described itself on Twitter. as the major […]
MoreIT PINOY as early as a year ago started following how the Philippine automated election would turn out, assessing so far the day – it generally turned out well. this would be be a great feat as this marks the very first time Filipinos would use a new system in choosing the 15th President. the […]
Morethe long wait is over as the Philippine National Elections pushes through as scheduled today – May 10, 2010. watching abs-cbn’s halalan 2010 coverage via kewl high tech ways of presenting news such as use of augmented reality and large touch tvs in their “war room,” reports have started pouring of PCOS machines not working […]
Moreit’s exactly 100 days today before the Philippine May 10 elections, however glimpses of a major automation failure is already seen by ex officials “Deliveries, testing, calibration, validation and training for automated elections are delayed. Ballot printing is also delayed… The risks of failures of the 2010 elections are increasing everyday,” the Former Senior Government […]
Moreafter months of discussions, doubts and controversies, looks like our automated polls will push through as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will likely award the P11.3b contract to the lone qualifying bidder consortium of Netherlands-based Smartmatic and local partner Total Information Management (TIM) next week. “We will act on the recommendation from SBAC (Special Bids […]
Moretoday, Philippine President Gloria Macapal Arroyo (PGMA) has formalized the Poll Automation Law by approving the 11.3B supplemental budget. “With the enactment of the budget into law, the President is living up to her commitment to modernize the electoral process through automation in order to safeguard the true will of the Filipino electorate,” PGMA’s adviser […]
Moreit’s 428 days to go before the 2010 elections and malacanang has recently asked Congress to give the poll automation a chance. the house has all ready approved Php11.3bil supplemental budget late last month but hasn’t finalized the “companion bill” that would bring back counting of the results manually. more so, to further show transparency […]
Moreu.s. will soon elect it’s 56th president tomorrow! sino ba manok ng mga IT PINOY’s – si obama ba o si mccain? hmmm??? found this in youtube, thought it was a kewl way to explain the american election system. eh ang PINOY heto ang panapat! sus!
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