Auto polls system lacks transparency — Namfrel
07/03/2010 Contrary to what the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic-TIM Corp., the service provider, claim, the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), in its report released yesterday, said the May 10 elections were not as transparent and secure. The Namfrel terminal report also said the random manual audit of certain precincts showed that the degree of variance was less than what was the required 99.995 percent accuracy. The overall performance of the machine is 99.35 percent accuracy, which was below the required 99.995 percent, it noted. While Namfrel acknowledged that the elections were fast and generally accurate, the automated election system “should be reviewed and remedial measures should be conducted for future elections.” “While the system counted ballots with considerable speed, it nonetheless lacked sufficient methods for tracing and auditing the entire processes which would have been necessary had any problems arisen which were material to the results of the counting or the canvassing,” the report said. The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), for its part, said it would be better if Comelec officials disclose at least 20 documents, including the Smartmatic-Comelec contract and annexes related to the conduct of the elections that it had requested last June 3. The UP-based think tank also urged the poll body to desist from speculating about using the same poll automation for the 2013 elections unless issues over the credibility of the last polls are satisfactorily answered. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100703hed6.html |
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