Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Tuesday that the Compact Flash (CF) cards of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines have become a target for those who wanted to sabotage the recent May elections.
Defeated reelectionist Iloilo Rep. Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco has questioned the results of the May 13 elections decrying widespread glitches in the compact flash (CF) cards of precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
Two Army soldiers, who were part of a unit guarding voting machines, were wounded after their group clashed with an undetermined number of suspected communist rebels in Ragay, Camarines Sur early Thursday, an Army spokesman said.
Six Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines malfunctioned during final testing and sealing proceedings Monday in Muntinlupa City, encountering problems from defective ballot scanners to erratic printing.
With little more than a week before voters troop to the poll precincts on May 13, senatorial candidate Dick Gordon has asked the Supreme Court to compel the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to allow the political parties to examine and review the source code of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used in the elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) approved in January a P16-million budget for the setup of permanent precinct count optical scan (PCOS) centers across the country in view of the May 13 elections, but taxpayers have yet to see any of these centers with just a few days to go before the balloting, according to a nongovernment organization based in San Juan City.
Hack it and prove that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines can be manipulated, otherwise hug it and embrace the truth that these can be trusted by the voters, an election lawyer told critics Sunday.
Worried about the reports it was getting from the field, the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) on Thursday wrote the Commission on Elections to express its apprehensions about the reliability of the Precinct Count Optical Scan machines.
There is no more time to review the source code of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines even if it would be released soon, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Monday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has reported being 90 percent ready to conduct the May 13 balloting, and said the lack of source code for the voting machines was the only problem left unsettled.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expects to finish the deployment of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines by the end of April.
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.
High-tech poll fraud was supposedly their specialty.
