POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS

2011

• New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
• National search for election technology backed by Comelec
• SEARCH FOR FILIPINO ELECTION TECH LAUNCHED
• Promote Filipino IT (FIT) for a New Election Technology
• Post Election Report on the Use of the Automated Election System (AES) in the 2010 National and Local Elections
• AES Watchers stage rally in front of Comelec
• Waiting in vain?
• CenPEG Reply to Philippine Star Columnists
• NEVER AGAIN TO SMARTMATIC's PCOS MACHINES (PDF)
• The insidious Smartmatic lobby
• Comelec-Smartmatic conspiracy?
• Two more statements against the use of Smartmatic PCOS machines in the ARMM polls
  • Junk PCOS! Case of Antipolo PCOS still unresolved
  • Follow the law!
• Hold ARMM elections this year; but don't use the seriously and inherently-flawed Smartmatic PCOS
• Never again to Smartmatic's PCOS machines
• Defend the ballot against the miscounting of votes by the Smartmatic-PCOS machines
• Melo's legacy
• Brillantes should do right and be the opposite of the Melo-led Comelec - CenPEG
• On the appointment of new Comelec Commissioners: ANYBODY – BUT NOBODY FROM COMELEC

2010

• To solve Party-list seat allocation, ask IT students
• AES WATCH Convener is next UP President
• CenPEG bares bugs and errors in May 10 election program
• What is Comelec Hiding? Release vital election documents NOW! (PDF)
• Philippines votes in the shadow of gunmen
• TI-Philippines chair cites Comelec's lack of transparency
• RELEASE VITAL DOCUMENTS, GROUPS ASK COMELEC
• THE CenPEG REPORT ON THE MAY 10, 2010 AUTOMATED ELECTIONS
• Guingona, CenPEG ask Comelec to comply with SC ruling
• COMELEC LOSES IN SOURCE CODE CASE WITH SUPREME COURT
  High Court ruling hailed as a victory for public information access, transparent election
• 17 REASONS WHY THE COMELEC MUST RELEASE VITAL PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
• The Unseen, Unheard and Forgotten: The Biliran Manobos in the May 2010 Elections
• An untransparent election
• Erroneous COCs in 57 provinces blamed on Smartmatic’s counting system
• Poll officials must answer security issues - CenPEG
• A PROPORTIONALITY ANALYSIS OF THE COOP-NATCCO SEAT ALLOCATION FORMULA
• Foreign Observers Challenge Election Legitimacy
• The May 10 Elections: Questions, Answers
• Problem of the CF Cards
• Citizens’ watchdogs: Guard votes, ensure peaceful power transition
• Joint Concern and Call on the May 10 automated elections
• Organized vigilance needed to ensure a peaceful power transition
• CenPEG kicks off 60-day Countdown to E-day
  • Photo Gallery
• Poll body asked to reply to CenPEG’s “30 vulnerabilities of the AES”
• Comelec washes hands off source code review issue
• CenPEG briefs major TV network
• Political parties, citizens’ watchdogs junk Comelec’s source code ‘walkthrough’
• Joint Statement of Political Parties and Citizens’ Groups on Comelec’s ‘Source Code Review’ (PDF)
• What is a Proper Source Code Review?
• Source Code Review According to COMELEC: A Commentary
• CenPEG’s voters’ education, poll watch training stepped up as election nears
• Center trains church-based poll watchers in island of Chocolate Hills

2009

• Comelec should release source code now – UP-based think tank(PDF)
• Is COMELEC-SMARTMATIC/TIM Engaged in Delaying Tactics?(PDF)
• AN APPEAL TO THE COMELEC
  FOR THE RELEASE OF THE SOURCE CODE OF THE AUTOMATED ELECTIONS SYSTEM (AES) FOR MAY 2010 (PDF)
• Exercises of the Elite
• POLITICAL WILL
• CenPEG Fellows brief House members on automated poll
• Melo “doomsayer” or telling the truth? (PDF)
• CA Releases Source Code Review of Voting Machines — New Security Flaws Revealed; Old Ones Were Never Fixed
• Written Testimony of David Wagner on California’s Source Code Review Legal Battle (PDF)
• STATEMENT OF DR. PABLO MANALASTAS (PDF)
• Bishops, solons, IT educators to Comelec: RELEASE SOURCE CODE NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! (PDF)
• PETITION FOR MANDAMUS vs COMELEC FILED (PDF)
• Statement of NASSA - CBCP
  re Source Code Review (PDF)
• COMELEC SHOULD COMPLY WITH POLL AUTOMATION LAW, UPHOLD VOTERS’ RIGHTS (PDF)
• Petition for Mandamus vs Comelec on election source code filed
• Joint Appeal on Source Code (PDF)
• Ex-Ombudsman Marcelo signs appeal for source code review
• Mindanao church leaders call for vigilance on automated election
• The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting (PDF)
• Poll contractor asked to explain hitches
• KDE Founder and Smartmatic: Comparison
• NOTES ON THE DIGITAL SIGNATURE:The PRIVATE – PUBLIC KEY Pairs of the BEI
• Reform Group Holds Talks with Comelec, Urges Transparency
• Deterring Automated Fraud
  CenPEG kicks off AES voters’ education nationwide
• Filipinos Think Poll Automation won’t Solve Electoral Vote
• COMELEC's PCOS-OMR System Rejects Public Counting, Enhances Wholesale Cheating
  A Policy Critique (PDF)
• Smartmatic Automated Election System (SAES)1800
• Smartmatic's PHP7.2 billion bid is NOT ridiculously low!
• The Hegemonic Work of Automated Election Technology in the Philippines
• Policy institute asks poll body to reveal automated election source code
• VOTERS SHOULD CALL FOR TRANSPARENT AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS IN 2010
• Rep. Villar still lone billionaire in House; Anakpawis Rep. Mariano is poorest
• Bishops, lay leaders call for transparent 2010 elections
• COMELEC SHOULD REVEAL PCOS-OMR SOURCE CODE (PDF)
• The Carpio Formula, the Philippine-Style Party-List System and Social Justice
• Safeguarding the 2010 Elections by Digital Signature (PDF)
• Analysis of an Electronic Voting System (PDF)
• Call for Transparent 2010 Elections
• Automated Canvassing Based on Transparently Prepared Elections Results: A Proposed Election Procedure (PPS)
• Automating Philippine Elections (PPS)
• Automated elections: electronic voting machines have problems too (PPS)
• The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World (PDF)
• Newly released video shows how easily electronic voting machines can be hacked, pried open
• Diebold Admits ALL Versions of Their Software Delete Ballots Without Notice
• Former ConCom member cites dilution of Party-list system
• 3 million voters were disenfranchised by the First Party Rule (A PowerPoint Presentation)
• RICHEST, POOREST IN 14TH CONGRESS 3 Arroyo kin richest in House 2 cols top
• Danding gears up for 2010 elections
• Duterte-Nograles face-off in 2010 unlikely
• Observations on the August 11, 2008 ARMM Automated Elections
• High-tech polls: No more ‘Hello Garci’
• Lesson for the ARMM polls: New problems accompany election automation
• Observations on the August 11, 2008 ARMM Automated Elections
• Anfrel report: Automation of ARMM polls didn't stop vote-buying
• Autonomy

  2007-2008

• AFP Engaging in Partisan Politics?
• Administration accused of arm-twisting the opposition
• CenPEG’s fourth book dissects Philippine corruption
• CenPEG extols Karapatan’s outstanding human rights advocacy
• Influence: A Booming Business
• CenPEG and IBON sponsor roundtable discussion on food security
• ARROYO REGIME-U.S. IMPERIALISM UNDER FIRE
• COMELEC, Arroyo Administration Both Liable for Questionable May 14 Polls
• Beyond the TV Ads
• WHY CHE GUEVARRA'S LEGACY ENDURES
• Corruptionary© now off the press
• Fraud and violence tackled in Party List round table discussion
• World day of Indigenous People 1
• World day of Indigenous People 2
• PARTY-LIST ELECTIONS: Fraud, Voters Disenfranchisement
• THE PARTY-LIST SYSTEM: A SOCIAL JUSTICE TOOL
• Building the House of Electoral Reforms for 2010 and Beyond
• Review of Party-list System Takes Off
• U.S. MILITARY FORCES: NEGOTIATED SUBSERVIENCE BY AN ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT
• Australian Senator scores GMA for Satur's arrest and detention, unabated political killings
• Pro-Arroyo Landlords in Congress to Reap Profits from Biofuels Act
• ELECTIONS IN ARMM ARE 'FARCICAL, FRAUDULENT
• ELECTIONS IN RP: ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY?
• PARTY-LIST FRONTS OF THE ARROYO GOVERNMENT
• Resolution for a Clean and Honest May 2007 Elections
• Fears of overpricing hound P1.2-B Bicol fund
• First-hand Account on the US Senate Hearing
• GO bares 10-point agenda
• Amid rampant corruption and widespread hunger GMA says economy is improving?
• Kontra Daya: Abalos accomplice to Maguindanao fraud
• Lambs to the slaughter
• Political dynasties influence Filipino vote - observer
• PPCRV: the Catholic Church in politics
• Something fishy in Maguindanao
• Stop playing dirty! Environmental activists want clean elections, literally and figuratively
• TI releases 2006 National Integrity Systems report says RP’s multiple anti-graft bodies “tainted,” “lack independence”
• 84% of voters are not influenced by surveys--SWS
• Corruptionary© now off the press
  • http://www.gmanews.tv/largevideo/latest/20701/Lozada-attends-'Corruptionary'-launch
  • http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/340868/1/.html

  Commentaries

• Party List: Shortest Route to Power and Danger Signals
• Commentary on the French Elections

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