With the Supreme Court decision in favor of automation, we have to face the reality that the black box will be a fact of life in the coming elections. The absence of a publicly observed count at the precinct-level will be an advantage when it comes to wholesale centrally-orchestrated fraud. Since what was written on [...]

Should he choose to accept the candidacy being offered to him, Noynoy’s mission is to heal the rifts that are slowly but surely tearing our society apart. As i mentioned almost two years ago, my hunch is that Mar Roxas & Noynoy Aquino represent the last chance for the oligarchs to redeem themselves. If they [...]

I’ve been in the Information Technology field for more than 20 years and from this vantage point, i am appalled at how we are going about automating our electoral system. A key starting point to building and deploying successful systems is to have clear and complete requirements. Unfortunately, proponents of automating our vote counting have [...]

Most of us who believe that good government is a basic requirement for progress will agree that we need competent and decent public officials. Unfortunately, the present incentive structure made up of very low official salaries combined with the opportunity to enjoy informal perks discourages the entry of good people and tends to attract wrong [...]

…will be similar to the effects of Raul Roco’s candidacy in 2004, which is to say that it will be good for the short term, but bad for the long term. During the 2010 Campaign season, Panlilio’s candidacy will galvanize the idealistic segment of the voting population (mostly from the Middle Class) who wish for [...]

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