Smartmatic: Expect PCOS to malfunction on E-Day By Marie A. Surbano and Mario J. Mallari 04/13/2010

Smartmatic: Expect PCOS to malfunction on E-Day

By Marie A. Surbano and Mario J. Mallari 04/13/2010 After assuring the public all throughout that the more than 82,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines will work properly come election day, the confidence of Smartmatic Corp., was nowhere to be found as it yesterday admitted it expects the machines to malfunction on May 10. At the same time, acting Defense chief Norberto Gonzles told the nation to “expect the worst on election day, as he bared that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials had admitted before the National Security Council in a recent meeting, to expect a worse poll scenario, with 30 percent of the country not having automated polls. Cesar Flores, Smartmatic president for Asia Pacific, yesterday told reporters what which happened in Hong Kong where one of its machines broke down on the second day of the voting for overseas absentee is not surprising and was expected. But Flores claimed that the failure rate is very minimal and could be less than 1 percent or roughly between 200 to 400 units only out of the 76,200 machines that will be deployed to the 76,000 clustered precincts nationwide.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100413hed2.html

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