Were 13M voters partly disenfranchised in the 2010 automated elections?
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DEFECTS AND VULNERABILITIES OF THE SMARTMATIC 2010 AES
(or What Smartmatic Must Do To Make Its AES Conformant to RA-9369 In Election 2013)
Pablo Manalastas, PhD
IT Consultant, Center for People Empowerment in Governance
Lecturer, Computer Science, Ateneo and U.P.Diliman
If these two versions of the ER are exactly the same, then not all the votes in those 25,888 precincts have been canvassed and consolidated – in this case about 12.9 million voters have been partly disenfranchised because their votes for one, two, or three of their candidates were not included in the canvassing.
Election watchdog to Comelec: Smartmatic-TIM is no longer an option
Whether under Option 1 or Option 2, the election technology provider in the May 2010 polls, Smartmatic-TIM should no longer be an option and should be disqualified altogether from participating in the 2013 elections.
Political party system act OK'd on first reading
Bill appropriates P500M state subsidy fund for political parties
By CenPEG News
February 8, 2012
The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reform (CSER) last February 7 approved on first reading a bill strengthening the political party system and creating a state subsidy fund for political parties.
OMR technology for 2013 proposed by Comelec advisory council
CenPEG News
Jan. 31, 2012
The Comelec Advisory Council (CAC) last week announced it had recommended to Comelec on Jan. 12 the use of Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology for the May 2013 national and local elections.
CAC chair Louis Napoleon Casambre (talking) explains OMR recommendation. Sitting with him are Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento (left), and right, lawyer Louie Tito F. Guia of Lente and Namfrel's Eric Jude Alvia. CenPEG Photo
Election advocates, poll officials gear for 2013 polls
CenPEG News
Jan. 03, 2012
Left photo (L-R) Comelec Commissioner Gus Lagman, Chair Sixto Brillantes, Nelson Celis of PCS Foundation, and Pablo Manalastas, CenPEG IT consultant. Right photo(L-R) Atty. Ona of Lente, ex-Gov. Grace Padaca, Sr. Gloria Carmen Eamiguel, FFM, of Biliran Kawsa, Makabayan's Satur Ocampo, and UCCP Bp. Gabriel Garol
Non-government election watchdogs, poll officials, representatives of Congress and political parties, and IT practitioners pledged on Dec. 13 to work for a voter-friendly, fraud- and glitch-free synchronized elections in May 2013.
The Senate Committee on Electoral Reform
The Senate Committee on Electoral Reform chaired by Sen. Koko Pimentel (left, presiding) meets with CenPEG, AES Watch conveners, Comelec officials, and others on Dec. 6 and 12 last year on automated elections reform and political parties. CenPEG photo
AES Watch urges Congress to probe into CoA report of Smartmatic ballot box overpricing
The Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) on Oct. 17 asked the immediate convening of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee (JCOC) on the automated elections and look into a recent report by the Commission on Audit (CoA) regarding the overpricing of the delivery and transport of ballot boxes in the May 2010 elections and Nov. 13 special polls.
Fingerprint scanning of voters proposed for next elections
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) on Oct. 11 proposed a bill using real-time fingerprint scanning to enhance voter identity verification in an automated election.
Pablo Manalastas, seated extreme left, explains fingerprint scanning while other resource persons, including Lito Averia of AES Watch (next to Manalastas) wait for their turn to speak. (CenPEG photo)
Sen. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, Senate electoral committee chair, stresses a point during the hearing.
RM awardee meets RM awardee
Bienvenido Lumbera, 1991 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts (right), meets Koul Panha, 2011 Awardee "for ensuring free and fair elections" in Cambodia on Sept. 2 this year. The two met during a dialogue with Panha and fellow advocates for good governance sponsored by the RM Foundation and the National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel).
Lumbera is also 2006 National Artist for Literature. He has been Board Chair of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG). Photo courtesy of Namfrel
Election automation must solve traditional fraud, Comelec bureaucracy
Posted by CenPEG.org
September 28, 2011
CenPEG Senior Fellow Temario C. Rivera says that even if election automation is "the way to go forward" in Philippine elections it will not necessarily address the traditional forms of electoral fraud such as vote buying and compromised voters' registration lists.
Three election reform advocates honored
Posted by CenPEG
Three luminaries in the country's election reform who now occupy key positions in public service were honored by CenPEG during the "Multi-Stakeholders Consultation and Testimonial," August 20 this year.
UNITY STATEMENT
Multi-Stakeholders Consultation on Electoral Reform
Alumni Cafe, UP, Diliman, Quezon City
August 20, 2011
Recent reports and admissions of cheating in the 2004 and 2007 elections reveal the magnitude and depth of fraud in the country. Revelations linking the top brass in the military and police to poll cheating underscore the bigger picture of an institutional malady that has been pestering the country's electoral process involving the powers that be, some election officials, and some government authorities.
National search for election technology backed by Comelec
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) this week accepted as a sponsor of the 4th National Search for Product Excellence in IT (automated elections) initiated by the Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) and other organizers of the first FIT4E Conference.
SEARCH FOR FILIPINO ELECTION TECH LAUNCHED
The Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) announces the national search for technology excellence which aims to develop a model for poll automation in the Philippines.
Posted by CenPEG
May 7, 2011
Promote Filipino IT (FIT) for a New Election Technology
AES Watch Joint Statement
May 6, 2011
Dr. Pablo Manalastas, AES Watch co-convener and CenPEG IT consultant, reads the joint statement during the press conference in Quezon City. Also in the panel (L-R) are Bobby Tuazon, CenPEG director for policy studies; Toti Casino, PCS; Maricor Akol; former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, AES Watch honorary chair; and Nelson Celis, chair of PCS Foundation and DLSU faculty. (Photo by CenPEG)
Post Election Report on the Use of the Automated Election System (AES) in the 2010 National and Local Elections
By Comelec Advisory Council (CAC)
The CAC recommends that the COMELEC NOT exercise the option to purchase the AES. The AES encountered too many problems that need to be resolved before this particular system can be used again
AES Watchers stage rally in front of Comelec
Posted by CenPEG
March 24, 2011
Members of the Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) held a picket rally March 17 to question the Commission on Elections' decision to purchase voting machines found to be defective. The picket rally, which was joined by about 50 members of various citizens election watchdogs affiliated with AES Watch, was held in front of the Comelec office at Plaza Roma, Intramuros, Manila.
CenPEG Reply to Philippine Star Columnists
March 8, 2011
NEVER AGAIN TO SMARTMATIC's PCOS MACHINES
AES Watch
March 17, 2011
We are now more certain that the Smartmatic's election system is inherently flawed and, if used again, will further compromise the overarching needs for accuracy, reliability, and trustworthiness in elections.
The insidious Smartmatic lobby
By René B. Azurin
Strategic Perspective, BusinessWorld
March 2, 2011
Posted by CenPEG
Lobbying for the continued use of the Smartmatic automated election system in this country has been ratcheted up a few notches. As if in sync, several columnists with little knowledge of computer technology are now contradicting computer science professors and information technology experts who have issued detailed reports and public statements criticizing the Smartmatic system as flawed, faulty, and insecure. This media blitzkrieg is the latest salvo in the battle for control of Philippine elections.
Comelec-Smartmatic conspiracy?
By Rene B. Azurin
Strategic Perspective, BusinessWorld
February 24, 2011
Posted by CenPEG.org
Notwithstanding the already discovered flaws in the Smartmatic system and all the failures and anomalies observed and reported by citizens' monitoring groups (including nationwide organizations of information technology experts) in the use of the Smartmatic machines and system software for the May 2010 elections, it appears, from all indications, that the Comelec under new chairman Sixto Brillantes is still hell-bent on perpetuating the Smartmatic system.
Two more statements against the use of Smartmatic PCOS machines in the ARMM polls
- Junk PCOS! Case of Antipolo PCOS still unresolved
By PLUMA
February 16, 2011 - Follow the law!
By Jun Mercado, OMI -
Comelec's Comment to CenPEG Motion to Cite Respondent Comelec in Contempt of Court
Submitted to the Supreme Court, February 3, 2011
Posted by CenPEG Feb. 17, 2011
Hold ARMM elections this year; but don't use the seriously and inherently-flawed Smartmatic PCOS
Electing a new set of officials is a people's sovereign right to vote new officials – and hold previous or current officials to account for any wrongdoing by not electing them. This culture of postponement may actually create more conditions of instability and uncertainty. It will trigger acrimonious debates and more animosities on whether there should be “holdover” or “appointed” caretaker officials in the region.
Center for People Empowerment in Governance Before the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reform February 16, 2011
Never again to Smartmatic's PCOS machines
If the ARMM elections are held this year, there is no recourse but to revert to the manual system as resorted to by Comelec in the last barangay elections but with heightened citizen vigilance.
AES Watch Before the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reform
February 11, 2011
Defend the ballot against the miscounting of votes by the Smartmatic-PCOS machines
We must defend our votes against the DAGDAG-BAWAS effect of the SMARTMATIC-PCOS machines. Those who are responsible for the desecration of the sanctity of the ballots of the Filipino people in the May 2010 elections must be held accountable.
Felix Muga II /CenPEG/February 11, 2011
Smartmatic PCOS should not be used for August 2011 ARMM Elections
By Pablo Manalastas
We must strongly object to the use of the PCOS for the August 2011 ARMM election, because we do not want a fast ARMM election that produces wrong counts and would require wide margins of votes over rival candidates to make the results credible.
Brillantes should do right and be the opposite
of the Melo-led Comelec - CenPEG
The new Comelec under Sixto Brillantes, Jr. “must do right – and be the opposite of the Melo-chaired Comelec.”
On the appointment of new Comelec Commissioners:
ANYBODY – BUT NOBODY FROM COMELEC
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) today, January 11, said anybody – except those from the current Comelec – can be appointed to be the next chairman of the election body or replace those set to retire this year.
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To solve Party-list seat allocation, ask IT students
By Felix Muga II
CenPEG
Posted Dec. 30, 2010
Straight from computer schools in four countries, IT students were asked to solve the seat allocation of the Party-list system in the Philippines using the Carpio formula.
CenPEG bares bugs and errors in May 10 election program
Posted by CenPEG
Dec. 8, 2010
Rep. Elpidio F. Barzaga, Jr., House electoral reform committee chair
CenPEG and AES Watch representatives during the hearing
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) revealed on Dec. 6 that the election program used in the May 10, 2010 automated elections was full of errors and bugs based on the report of SysTest Labs.
Release election documents, before retiring - AES Watch
What is Comelec hiding?
Release vital election documents NOW!
Nov. 30, 2010
Two motions –one to cite the Commission on Elections in contempt of court and the other for mandamus -- were filed on Nov. 30, 2010 with the Supreme Court (SC) over the Comelec’s refusal to comply immediately with the decisions of the High Court of May 6, 2010 (Guingona, et al vs Comelec) and Sept. 21, 2010 (CenPEG vs Comelec).
A CALL FOR SUPPORT TO THE FILIPINO PEOPLE’S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Center for People Empowerment in Governance
November 13, 2010
The right of a citizen to access public information is a basic constitutional and human right. It is not a solution to transparent governance but nevertheless is a vital weapon for ordinary citizens to hold their government accountable for their public actions that affect the people.
Multistakeholders Round-Table Dialogue on the 2013 Elections
December 13, 2011
1-4 p.m.
UP-ITTC, Vidal A. Tan Hall, Quirino Ave., cor. Velasquez St., University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
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SUPPORT THE FILIPINO IT (FIT4E) FOR AUTOMATED ELECTIONS / Iba na ang FIT! The Filipino can do it!
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The CenPEG REPORT on the May 10, 2010 Automated Elections:
Project 3030: Action to Protect the Integrity of the Vote & Transparency in the 2010 Elections
AES WATCH Convener is next UP President
Posted by CenPEG
Dec. 14, 2010
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) congratulates Alfredo Pascual for his election on Dec. 3 by the Board of Regents as the 20th president of the University of the Philippines (UP), the country’s national university.
Letters and petitions
- Joint letter
- LANDMARK SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON THE MAY 2010 AUTOMATED ELECTIONS on the PETITIONS filed by Guingona, etal, and CenPEG, respectively, were anchored on the people’s right to information on matters of public concern
- RELEASE VITAL DOCUMENTS, GROUPS ASK COMELEC
- Guingona, CenPEG ask Comelec to comply with SC ruling
- CenPEG writes Comelec anew for release of documents
- CenPEG seeks disclosure of poll documents
- 17 REASONS WHY THE COMELEC MUST RELEASE VITAL PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
CenPEG and AES Watch representatives during the hearing (CenPEG photo)
Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, Head of Delegation
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