The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be conducting its final dry run or field testing of the controversial precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines on Monday, one week before the May 13 midterm elections.
All Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to be used for the May 13 election in Cebu have arrived last Wednesday.
DO you know how to use the vote count machines?
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may finally get the source code of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines to be used in the May 13 polls.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the poll body has a prize on the table for anyone who can break into the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines and manipulate the results it would produce.
High-tech poll fraud was supposedly their specialty.
Exasperated with the “lies” supposedly circulated by some poll watchdog groups, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Monday said critics of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines were just out to sow public mistrust and sabotage the coming balloting.
In a dry run, glitches are unavoidable. “I don’t understand all the noise, these critics,” Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. told reporters on Monday. “They know that mock elections are never perfect.”
The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) believes the computerized voting machines successfully used in the 2010 elections are flawed and he wants them thoroughly examined before these are used in next year’s midterm elections.
