Text and photos by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL BOTH the receipt-printing and on-screen verification features of the vote counting machines (VCMs) won’t be activated for the May 9 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. The Comelec en banc has decided to disable the ticket-printing feature, Election Chair Andres Bautista told VERA Files during the mock
By VINCE NONATO, LEILANIE ADRIANO, REYNARD MAGTOTO and CLTV 36 Was it a P1.4 billion well spent? Airfreight 2100 (Air 21), one of the two freight and cargo forwarding firms awarded by the Commission on Elections a P1.4 billion contract to deploy poll machines on Monday, caused massive delays and confusion in polling precincts for
By MIKHA FLORES, MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ, MARK PERE MADRONA and VINCE NONATO DELAYS, confusion and malfunctioning machines marred the testing on Monday of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, raising fears that these incidents might cause voter disenfranchisement on election day. But Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. dismissed these incidents as minor glitches
By MIKHA FLORES THE good news is the source code for the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines will be finally available for review by interested groups and political parties. The bad news is any review will not be completed until after the May 13 elections. Commission on Elections Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Monday
BULUAN, Maguindanao—Only five ballots had been fed when the Precinct Count Optical Scan or PCOS machine at the Talitay Elementary School here encountered a software error. As the day wore on, the machine failed to read the ballots or ejected a ballot.