We had a poll as to who will you vote for President in the 2010 national and local elections. Senator Noynoy Aquino received the highest votes. While our informal survey was farthest from being scientific, it correctly reflected that Noynoy Aquino will win.
What was surprising with the 2010 elections, aside from the sudden surge of Makati Mayor Jejomar “Jojo” Binay as the leading Vice-Presidential candidate with the most votes, is the speed of the counting, tabulation, transmission and canvassing of the results.
The May 10, 2010 national and local elections is the first time that the Philippines is using a fully automated system. Prior to this election the Philippines was using the manual system, which involved manually writing the names of the selected candidates. The ballots are manually dropped into a ballot box, later retrieved by the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI). The BEI members then counts the votes, using their discretion whether what is written could be appreciated in favor of a candidate. Then the Election Returns (ER) are transmitted for canvassing, with manual process repeated at the municipal, district, provincial and national levels. It’s a long, cumbersome and tedious process — the results for the national positions are not known until about 2 months. Plenty of opportunity to cheat.
Now we have the “Precinct Count Optical Scan” or “PCOS”, which is a technology wherein an optical ballot scanner, into which optical scan paper ballots marked by hand by the voter are inserted to be counted, is located in every precinct. This is the system approved by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and provided by Smartmatic.
The names of all candidates are already printed on the ballots and the voter needs only to mark the small circle beside each name. Then it’s inserted into the PICOS machine, which then reads the ballot and stores the information. Once the voting closes at 6:00 p.m. (extended to 7:00 p.m.), the BEI simply presses the right buttons, then the PCOS machine tallies the results and transmits the results to the main server. Fast and efficient.
There are already reports of an upswing in the business mood in the Philippines, partly because of the perceived effectiveness of the new election system. Would you say the first automated elections in the Philippines was successful? The poll is found below. You may also use the comment section below.
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July 26th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
Website:http://might-e2010.com/Company Overview:The Movement for Integrity in Governance and Honesty and Truth in the May 2010 elections (MIGHTe2010) is a coalition of non-government organizations, civil society groups, and concerned citizensMission:Dear Fellow Citizens and Patriots,
Today, we stand at a crossroad in our history. What we allow today can unmake us as a nation or change our destiny forever. It is in our hands to create the future that we deserve.
Many of us had hoped that poll automation would begin a new era of clean, orderly, and honest electoral exercises. Unfortunately, it is increasingly clear, based on forensic evidence, the glaring technical weaknesses of the system, and the absence of vital security features, that poll automation in the May 2010 elections was heavily compromised, both on the local and national levels.
Equally distressing, the Commission on Elections wantonly ignored and set aside many vital requirements of the Automated Election System Law (Republic Act 9369). In addition, Congress violated constitutional provisions governing the canvassing of votes for president and vice president. These call into question the very legality and Constitutionality of the entire elections and the proclamation process that followed.
Parallel to these are numerous complaints from both candidates and voters. Different individuals have testified, under oath, that there was a group, claiming links with some officials of the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic, that offered national and local positions to the highest bidder. These allegations cannot be ignored and need to be vigorously investigated.
We are alarmed that a central feature of our democracy, the electoral process, was apparently electronically designed to benefit the highest bidder. If so, we face a future where our political system and the country will be controlled by drug and gambling lords, crony businessmen, and others who have the money and moral deficit to buy the victories of all candidates, from President down to councilor!
There are many decent Filipinos who will not take this betrayal of our democracy sitting down. We have decided to come together to create a movement for a decent, upright, just, dynamic, and progressive country.
We call our initiative, the “Movement for Integrity in Governance and Honesty and Truth in the May 2010 Elections (MIGHT e2010)”. This is a non-partisan gathering of civil society organizations, political groups, business entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens.
MIGHT e2010 has three goals:
1) To unravel the truth surrounding the May 2010 elections;
2) To restore honesty and truth in our electoral processes;
3) To advance moral integrity and true service in the governance of our country.
We have tried very hard to air these issues in many different public fora. Unfortunately, the major media outlets, which are clearly biased, have refused to bring this to the people’s attention.
Furthermore, the Joint Committee of Congress and the House Committee on Suffrage did not properly investigate this matter. The committees were led by officials who obviously had their own agendas and blatantly tried to stop the truth from coming out.
With the failure of these institutions and the injustice that has been done, we have no choice but to bring the facts directly to the people.
MIGHT e2010
July 26th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
NO !!!!!!!!!!
July 26th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
No No No.
Security features were almost non-existent and manual counts by some groups and observers showed great discrepancies. Completely and absolutely not trustworthy results.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Of course No! , Triads has manipulated and COMELEC rigged the Election results.Wait for Mar Roxas election protest results and see how they did it..
July 27th, 2010 at 10:14 am
No.No .No No.No, How can you imagine Binay Beaten Mar Roxas and bayani.. that’s ridiculous.. Smart- ass-matic earn too much in this from the COMELEC , fom the handlers and from the Players..Wait for the results of the Mar Roxas Election protest and the culprits will all be in jail..
July 27th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
COMPLETE REPORT ON AUTOMATED ELECTIONS:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33627954/Charman-s-Report-on-Automated-Elections-complete-document
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_u41eWl2E
FOREIGN OBSERVERS CHALLENGE ELECTION LEGITIMACY:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33699600/Foreign-Observers-Challenge-Election-Legitimacy
I abhor the Comelec and Smartmatic guys for making the Filipinos believe that we have the “cleanest and fraud-proof” elections. They deliberately removed all the safeguard features on these elections (absence of digital signatures, peculiar absence of UV lamps in precincts, to name a few). The Antipolo 28 PCOS machines were used before and after the elections as reported by the forensic IT experts. People investigating the fraud were trying to reach the media but they were disregarded either due to their biased views or as per order by their media heads, even if there were glaring proofs of fraud! Grand conspiracy is what i’ve been suspecting. All we wish is for the TRUTH to come out! We want a CREDIBLE AND FRAUD FREE ELECTIONS IN 2013; if these were left uncorrected, a repeat of the incident would continue and we wont be having a true democracy! We are knocking into your good heart and conscience to please help us! May God have mercy on our country!