The head of a San Juan City-based nongovernment organization is set to file charges against key officials of the Commission on Elections and a retired commissioner in connection with a P16-million project that the poll body had approved for the setup of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) “demonstration centers” across the country.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III wants the Senate to look into alleged discrepancies between the election results transmitted by the precinct count optical scanners and those culled from the random manual audit.
There will always be “discrepancies” between the Random Manual Audit (RMA) and the automated count because of the difference in how a machine and a human looks at the ballots, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Wednesday.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Thursday that about 18,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, or a quarter out of the total 78,000 machines, had experienced transmission problems.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. is willing to put his reputation on the line to prove that there was no poll fraud.
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 [...]
The recently concluded 2013 automated elections were worse than the 2010 exercise because of the bigger number of errors and the “arbitrary and highly irregular decisions” which compromised the elections’ credibility and transparency, according to a poll watchdog group.
An official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Cordillera said the holding of special elections for a village here, whose ballots were delivered to Compostela Valley, was beyond the local poll office’s jurisdiction.
Glitches in vote counting machines bedevilled yesterday’s midterm voting in Cebu.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental has vowed to investigate a claim by a voter that he received a pre-shaded ballot.
Sixteen defective Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines caused delays in the elections in Caloocan City.
Despite reported delays in the start of voting in certain areas in the country, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday it will not extend voting hours.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno opted to vote in the afternoon, when politicians have already cast their votes.
