Dr. Temario Rivera of AES Watch pointed out that Comelec did not fulfill the requirements set by the law with the absence of a comprehensive source code review and digital signatures, the failure of final testing and sealing, and the absence of a contingency plan.
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Comelec’s P1.2B ‘midnight deal’ with Smartmatic questioned at SC
One of the petitioners, Bishop Broderick Pabillo, says voiding the Comelec resolution could help in the country’s efforts to hold clean elections.
Election watchdog calls for independent probe on conduct of poll automation
“Who among the elected and losing candidates from the senatorial to the local level would know how many votes had they really garnered in this election? Or if the ranking of the senatorial candidates and party list groups accurately reflect their true votes?” – AES Watch
Go ahead, sue us and abide by law, election watchdogs dare Brillantes
“These irresponsible threats (from Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes) are meant to muzzle election stakeholders especially critics for them to just keep quiet amid the publicly-exposed blatant transgressions of the election law, the repeated errors, malfunctioning, and glitches of the PCOS machines, data inconsistencies, and recently, the bypassing of canvassing rules.” – AES Watch
Comelec ‘shortcuts’ made votes vulnerable to manipulation – election watchdogs
Rene b. Azurin, author of “Hacking Our Democracy,” said at the AES Watch press conference that against historical trends, from the beginning to the lull in counting, the ranking of senatorial candidates did not change, even the differences between their votes were almost constant.
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‘2013 elections a technological, political disaster’ – election watchdogs
“What happened in this election “are very serious concerns of the Filipino people….This constitutes a grave travesty of the peoples’ right to suffrage and the integrity of the votes”– AES Watch
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Massive cheating feared as Comelec summarily dismisses unresolved automated election problems
By MARYA SALAMAT
“Clearly, automation does not magically solve the issues perpetually hounding the conduct of the elections in the country. Instead, the AES even gives more room for doubt and electoral fraud.” – Kabataan Party-list
Use facts not gutter language, Comelec told
By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA — The Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) refused “to go down to the level of arguments with the prominent use of gutter language by the head of a Constitutional body – Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes.” In a strongly worded statement, Bobby M. Tuazon, co-convener of AES Watch and director…
CenPEG | Right to know should prevail in automated election
By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) A major victim in this electoral exercise is the people’s right to know. By consistently imposing rigid guidelines and restrictions to “make available the source code for independent review,” the Comelec is actually obstructing the exercise of the citizens’ right to know that would have ensured…
Fix First Defects of 2010 Polls, Watchdogs Challenge Comelec’s Brillantes
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
Brillantes cannot just hold another fully automated elections even without banishing “the ghosts and weaknesses” of previous elections, particularly that of the 2010 automated elections. “He must come up with a comprehensive report at the soonest time possible, lest he be accused of merely sweeping under the rug all those cases of poll irregularities,” said We Watch, a watchdog.