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Day: May 10, 2010
News in Pictures: Voting Process in Davao City at Snail’s Pace
DAVAO CITY — Voting in Barangay Centro Agdao is going at a snail’s pace. Lines are long and at the rate the automated voting is progressing, observers fear many will not be able to cast their ballots by the time polling centers close. Voters who have agonized waiting in line grudgingly call the PCOS machines “tikas machines”, with pun intended. Workers, who still have to report for work and those who find the long lines and the wait much too daunting, have already left the precincts without casting their votes.
PR: People’s International Observers’ Mission
This time the situation is even more volatile because a new automated voting system is being used which has been tried out only at the last minute, and appears to be subject to a number of problems.
2010 Elections: Massive Disenfranchisement of Voters Looms – Kontra Daya
By MARYA SALAMAT
The snail’s pace in the voting process would create more problems than just the long lines voters have to endure.
2010 Elections: Violence, Glitches Mar First Five Hours of the Automated Elections
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The May 10 elections have officially began. As expected, the first five hours were far from smooth.
2010 Elections: Voting Made More Difficult
Automation and computerization are supposed to make life easier. It is supposed to speed up processes by minimizing human intervention. After all, machines are more efficient, more precise, and do not tire easily compared to humans. However, this is not the case with the first Philippine Automated Election System.
News in Pictures: Defective Equipment, Slow Election Process Greet Voters in Abra
Bangued, ABRA — In other precincts, people are complaining of the very slow process — from checking the names of the voters to submitting the ballot to the PCOS machine. Some even went home because they cannot handle the extreme heat. At Precinct #7, BEIs manually collected the ballots. The PCOS machine cannot process the ballots due to defective CF card. The BEI said, they are still waiting for the replacement CF cards to arrive from Manila. A voter told Bulatlat in an interview that the glitches might disenfranchise the votes.
Youth Solon Alarmed Over Possible Disenfranchisement of 250,000 First-time Voters
PRESS RELEASE May 10, 2010 11:46am – Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino expressed alarm over reports that possibly 250,000 first time voters who registered during the voter registration extension period would be disenfranchised. Palatino said that the Kabataan headquarters and central monitoring station have so far received reports from Metro Manila, Bulacan, Baguio, Samar…
PR: AES Watch Sets Up Citizens’ Election Monitor at U.P. Campus
Election watchdog AES Watch has set up a web-based Citizens’ Election Monitor. Citizens are invited to serve as volunteer reporters in their respective locations and report incidents related to the automated polls to the AES Watch website.
News in Pictures: Hundreds of Voters Line Up Outside Maguindanao Poll Precinct
MAGUINDANAO — Hundreds of people line up outside Buldon Elementary School since early morning to vote. While no untoward incident occurred, it’s a bit chaotic here as voters jostle to enter the voting precincts. “Magulo pero masaya,” says Kabiba Tomawis, a voter.
PR: Poll Watchdog Condemns Intensified Harassment vs. Progressive Groups on Eve of Election Day
On the eve of election day, Southern Tagalog regional poll-watchdog Kontra Daya, Kontra Karahasan received reports of election-related violence against militant groups in the region. In Los Baños, Laguna, at around 12:30 mn, 3 members of Kabataan Partylist, a member of Bayan Muna Partylist and Barangay Human Rights Officer Virgilio Tandang were arrested and physically injured by alleged Makati police officers while in a mass-action of residents against the alleged vote-buying and flying-voter scheme of a mayoral candidate.