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Comelec mulls sanctions vs Smartmatic for foul-ups
KIMBERLY JANE T. TAN
GMANews.TV
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is considering penalizing poll machine supplier Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) for the glitches in the automated election system that will be used during the May 10 [...]
Continue Reading →Smartmatic execs told: Surrender passports
abs-cbnNEWS.com
MANILA, Philippines – The Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) on Thursday urged foreign officials and employees of Smartmatic involved in the election automation project to send their passports to a Catholic bishop.
“We are calling in your bluff. Give us all [...]
Continue Reading →Comelec: Machine testing can drag until election day
By Reynaldo Santos Jr.
abs-cbnNews.com/Newsbreak
MANILA, Philippines—Election machine manufacturer Smartmatic and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) revealed the possibility of the final sealing and testing of election machines dragging until election day on May 10.
Originally [...]
Continue Reading →Philippine poll body to push ahead with May 10 vote
By Manny Mogato and Rose Francisco
Reuters
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ Commission on Elections said it would do everything to ensure national elections were held as planned on May 10, after faults with vote [...]
Continue Reading →Voting machines fail
76,000 memory cards to be replaced
By Michael Lim Ubac, Tarra Quismundo, Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Now, it can be told officially. The tests produced weird results.
This sent embarrassed officials of the Commission on Elections [...]
Continue Reading →Plot to disrupt voting bared
By Sheila Crisostomo
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Some groups are plotting to undermine the automated election system by trying to delay or prevent voting, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) disclosed yesterday.
Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal [...]
Continue Reading →Manual parallel count unnecessary—Comelec
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
WITH 15 DAYS to go before the country embarks on its first automated polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared the parallel manual count pushed by certain sectors as unnecessary and assured [...]
Continue Reading →Comelec asked: Where are spare machines?
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Where are the spare voting machines?
Poll watchdog groups Tuesday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disclose the security arrangements for the spare voting machines as they said [...]
Continue Reading →Melo: We’re 100 percent on target
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—It’s all systems go, contrary to fears of skeptics.
“We are 100 percent on target,” declared Chair Jose Melo of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in an interview with [...]
Continue Reading →Poll results to come up on big screens
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Poll watchers and watchdogs will be able to see the canvassed election results as they come in on May 10 on large screen monitors and projectors that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) [...]
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