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Comelec made a promise. Now, it is being asked to keep its word.
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Voting needs more than 11 hours, CenPEG study shows
Massive voters’ disfranchisement and greater security risks loom as the 11 hours allotted for voting appears to be inadequate in accommodating all registered voters on May 10 this year.
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Random manual audit: Voters’ ‘last line of defense’
Various stakeholders have reached a consensus that a random manual audit (RMA) of the May 10 polls is needed not only to comply with the law, but to ensure that no fraud has been committed during its conduct.
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Stripping away AES’ dignity and security
“The Comelec is performing a strip show,” that leaves the Automated Election System (AES) with few “processes and features designed to thwart or prevent electoral fraud”….
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AES Watch asks Comelec to ‘demonstrate faith’
After some counting machines deployed for overseas absentee voters in Hong Kong failed to operate, the multisectoral election watchdog AES Watch has now asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec)….
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Mock polls portend of worse to come on May 10
At least 50 percent to 75 percent of the country’s expected 50 million voters may be unable to vote on May 10.
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Comelec field test faces transmission glitch
Transmission failures dogged the second field test held by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the cities of Pateros and Taguig, Metro Manila last January 29, a CenPEG research observation reported.
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AES Watch launched
“Comelec is not ready for AES; prepare contingency plan now!”
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COMELEC’S ill-preparedness is causing fears, mistrust
Comelec’s ill-preparedness and delays in setting up a trustworthy, efficient, and credible
election automation are triggering public fears and mistrust in the whole system.
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Comelec’s poll automation is endangered
The aesWatch’s STAR (System Trustworthiness, Accountability and Readiness) Scorecard presents the group’s rating on the 20 areas of concern for the 2010 automated elections.
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Overseas absentee voting at risk, migrant group warns
Trainings are currently being done by members of the government’s foreign service corps, but all these trainings may not prevent the “inevitable” failure in the conduct of the overseas absentee voting (OAV) in the coming May 10 elections.
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Senators alarmed over imminent widespread voters’ disenfranchisement
An alarm was raised at the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee (JCOC) hearing on February 5 that the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) lack of contingency plans and other problems could lead to widespread voters’ disenfranchisement.
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Checklists for poll monitoring now ready
In a pioneering initiative, the European Union-CenPEG Project 30-30 Research Team has finished and distributed six checklists to monitor pre-election and elections proceedings in the coming May 10 polls.
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Poll body asked to reply to CenPEG’s ‘30 vulnerabilities of the AES’
Lawmakers have asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to respond in writing to the 30 election concerns raised by the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG).
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UP-based think tank won’t be part of Comelec’s sham software review
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) has announced that it will not take part in the “source code review” called by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to study the software program of the May 10 automated election system (AES).
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CenPEG kicks off 60-day Countdown to E-day
To promote transparent and credible elections, the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) launched an intensive information campaign on March 10, two months or 60 days before the May 10 synchronized automated elections.
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Youth green groups rate ‘greenest’ and ‘meanest’ candidates
Several environmentalist youth groups have ranked presidential, vice-presidential and senatorial candidates based on how they answered 10 questions relating to the environment……
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The Philippines’ first automated election system (AES) to be implemented on May 10 has triggered both public interest and confusion.
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Poll volunteers keeping a tight watch on the May 10 election
Election watchers and volunteers in the provinces are keeping a close watch on the coming May 10 national and local elections where automation will be used for the first time in the Philippines.
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No qualms: In Marawi, election posters and streamers everywhere
26 March 2010, Islamic City of Marawi—At the start of the official local campaign period today, how does it look like in the city once dubbed as the ‘streamer capital of the Philippines?’
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Ambassador Alistair MacDonald, Head of Delegation
The Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines (EU Delegation Manila) is a fully-fledged diplomatic mission, with the task of officially representing the European Union in the Philippines (in close cooperation with the Embassies of the the EU Member States.
The Head of Delegation is formally accredited as the official representative of the European Union to the Government of the Philippines and is referred to as the Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Philippines.
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