VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT order removal of Smartmatic
A cursory Google search revealed Duterte made no such order this month.
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Comelec to study replacing Smartmatic as poll supplier
Spokesperson Jimenez said that if public bidding rules can be amended, that is worth a try.
Comelec: 2016 elections with fastest transmission rate
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and VERLIE Q. RETULIN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Rodrigo Duterte is leading by a wide margin in an elections with the fastest transmission rate in the country’s history of automated polls. At 10:40 p.m., 75.38 percent of polling precincts have already transmitted election returns said poll chief Andres Bautista. Though the Commission on
Automated election system hard to hack, says IT expert
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL IT is possible, but highly unlikely to rig the 2016 elections and use it to favor a certain candidate, given the security features of the automated election system (AES), says an information technology expert. Only when there is “insider cheating” or conspiracy among those controlling the system can electoral fraud take
Air 21 blamed for delays in PCOS testing
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
Comelec fails to get source code anew
By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections has set for Monday its final meeting with Dominion Voting Systems after it failed anew to persuade the company to release the source code for the automated machines to be used in the May 13 elections. Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes was supposed to announce Friday whether Dominion’s source code
No certainty with the source code – Brillantes
By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections’ negotiations with Dominion Voting Systems for the release of the source code for the automated machines to be used in the coming elections have gained little headway, but Chairman Sixto Brillantes is still hoping for a definitive outcome from the talks so the poll body can get past
