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Will ‘Winged’ Voters Still Take Flight on May 10?

A red flag from the Commission on Elections:

01.24.2010

The 2010 Elections Under Threat

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(Screenshot of hacked TESDA web site)
This report cannot be taken lightly: the hacking, and defacement of a 5th government website:

01.12.2010

COMELEC Unseats Gov. Grace Padaca. Ed Panlilio Next?

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC), on Tuesday declared former Governor Benjamin Dy the rightful winner of the 2007 Isabela Elections for governor, and ordered Governor Grace Padaca to vacate the position immediately.
The almost two and a half year recount finally ended with former Governor Dy winning by just a margin of around 1,051 votes. [...]

12.9.2009
blackshama

Which is more corrosive to the youth, being gay or cheating in elections?

The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t list being gay as a sin. It however lists gay acts (sexual acts obviously) as disordered. The Church counsels understanding of the gay condition and the heterosexual faithful are exhorted to help gays live  lives in conformity with Church teaching, be celibate or be faithful heterosexuals (which incidentally is also [...]

11.13.2009
Pablo Manalastas

Election 2010: Public Counting & Code Review

Computer Programs
A computer program is a set of instructions that a computer follows to accomplish its task. Without a program, a computer is just a dumb chunk of metal and plastic. With a program the computer can help us browse the web, send and receive email, Skype our relatives abroad, format and print beautiful documents, [...]

08.4.2009

Will History Repeat Itself In 2010?

Are we headed for a repeat of the graft-ridden election nearly a decade ago that saw someone who sounded like Gloria Macapagal Arroyo phoning  elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano about assuring a one million-vote lead in the 2004 election?

05.9.2009
Felix Muga II

Computerization of The 2010 Philippine Elections

There is a pressing issue that I think the Philippine cyberspace should discuss and this is the computerization of 2010 elections. We are going to spend around 8 billion pesos in LEASING counting machines for 12 hours without the assurance that the data generated by these machines are genuine.
Safeguarding the 2010 Elections with Digital Signatures
Pablo [...]

04.30.2009
Primer C. Pagunuran

Christian Monsod And Other Doubting Thomases

One must find it healthy to know that a former COMELEC Chairman in the person of Christian Monsod has expressed serious concern over whether the full automation for 2010 would make the election clean, fair and honest. Perhaps, there may be any number of other doubting Thomases who share the view that there is [...]

03.12.2009

COMELEC – The Late Bird Does Not Get The Worms

My coverage of The Lintang Bedol Fiasco during last year’s 2007 elections, almost gave me ulcers upon ulcers. And it is just one of the primary reasons that when I see that so-called Senator Zubiri, my stomach gets upset. In any case, as we all know, COMELEC didn’t do anything about Lintang Bedol, even after he lost all those damn documents, which eventually meant that Migz Zubiri could coast and win the 12th spot as Senator, “winning” over Koko Pimentel.

06.22.2008
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