Auto polls won’t have proof of voting 03/26/2010

ATM users, lotto buyers given receipts, but not Smartmatic’s PCOS Auto polls won’t have proof of voting 03/26/2010 The National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), in comparing the automated voting system for the May 10 polls to buying lotto tickets or having an ATM transaction, said that voters have no way of knowing whether the ballots they inserted into the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines would have been counted accurately by the machines. There is no proof at all that their votes were counted, since the Smartmatic machines do not give out any receipt or proof of the votes count, unlike receipts given out by machines used for lotto purchases and ATM transactions. The Namfrel, a poll watchdog that has been conducting, since 1986, a quick count during elections, but never completes the count, has been denied accreditation by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the May automated polls. Namfrel, in a statement, raised this question: “How sure are you that your vote will be counted in the automated count?”.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100326hed1.html