Big poll problems, no real solutions FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/13/2010

Big poll problems, no real solutions

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/13/2010 Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Smartmatic continue to play down the glitches and malfunction experienced during the overseas voting, even when it is now getting more and more probable that even more glitches and machine malfunctions can be expected to occur in the country nationwide on May 10. In Hong Kong, it was reported that on the second day of the overseas absentee voting, the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines at the Bayanihan Kennedytown Center failed to immediately accept the ballots, even when the ballots were clean and correctly shaded. Also reported was that in one precinct where the machine failed, a replacement PCOS was brought in shortly after. But in the same precinct, the two replacement machines didn’t function, and the orginal machine which earlier went on the blink went well.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100413com2.html

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