LUCENA CITY—The recent elections in Bicol and Southern Tagalog are more peaceful than that in 2010, the military said. Citing military and police records, Lt. Col. Neil Anthony Estrella, of the Armed Forces Southern Luzon Command, said government authorities arrested 565 election gun ban violators from January until May 13 this year compared to [...]
Defeated reelectionist Iloilo Representative Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco Jr. questioned the results of the May 13 elections, decrying widespread glitches in the precinct count optical scanners (PCOS).
Faulty compact flash (CF) cards and malfunctioning PCOS machines delayed transmission of election returns to some municipal and provincial board of canvassers, delaying the proclamation of winners in Cavite, Albay, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Sorsogon, Batangas and Marinduque.
Sixteen defective Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines caused delays in the elections in Caloocan City.
Today is D-day for senatorial, congressional and local candidates as they vie for 17,000 electoral positions in the country’s second automated elections.
Now that manual elections look to be a thing of the past, people can afford to wax nostalgic over the much-derided slow and lengthy method of casting and counting the votes.
Critics of the controversial Precinct Count Optical Scan machines will have their opportunity to prove the that voting gadgets could be hacked or tampered with during their field testing on Monday, one week before the mid-term elections.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes on Wednesday said they have been finalizing the agreement with automated elections technology suppliers Dominion Voting Systems Inc. and Smartmatic International for the release of the source code of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in time for its review by political parties, accredited organizations and independent candidates.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expecting to save millions of pesos by replacing the padlocks on ballot boxes with serialized plastic seals and by forgoing the purchase of thumbmarkers used in getting the thumbmarks of voters.
Election technology provider Smartmatic International Corp. on Sunday sought to quell doubts and rumors about the legitimacy of the source code it placed in escrow in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) following the first automated elections two years ago.
It’s all systems go for the 2013 automated elections despite the legal dispute between Smartmatic International Corp. and its subcontractor Dominion Voting Systems International Corp.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said that he is confident that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines that will be used in the 2013 elections are ready and tamperproof.
Vice President Jejomar Binay on Thursday supported the Supreme Court’s (SC) decision to approve the validity of the use of PCOS machines, saying automated elections reflect the votes of the Filipino people.
