Will the votes be counted? EDITORIAL 03/01/2010

Will the votes be counted? EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/01/2010 Last Friday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the last batch of the voting machines needed for the automated polls on May 10 will be delivered early Saturday to beat yesterday’s deadline. Delivery of the machines would merely be the first rung in setting up the whole system that Smartmatic-TIM was contracted to provide the country’s first computerized elections. Some 76,000 of the machines will be distributed in as many clustered precincts in the country on May 10 to allow 50 million Filipinos whom the Comelec said were registered to vote. The best percentage thus far that the country’s electoral process in the past has drawn came up to about 85 percent of the voters on election day which means that at most, 42.5 million Filipinos will troop to the precincts and try to vote. This also means that an average of 559 voters would be assigned to each precinct.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100301com1.html

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