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Commision on Elections (Comelec) officials have this plan of tapping foreign IT experts to perform and evaluate the first nationwide automated polls in the country, as the introduction of the new automated system made it necessary for the election system to be evaluated, so it says. The reason for hiring foreign experts to carry out the assessment and evaluation of the May 10 polls computerized elections is that the poll body wants this evaluation to be free from any malice as well as to show that the polls have been credible. That is hardly the real reason behind Comelec hiring so-called foreign experts — and probably tap people with links to Smartmatic, too. But hey, why should these so-called foreign experts be hired by the Comelec, when we have independent Filipino IT experts to do the job, and even for free. There are enough IT experts in this country, and their organizations are pretty independent — and malice shouldn’t be attached to their call for Comelec to make public several relevant documents for their independent study, all of which demands by various IT groups have been spurned by the Comelec, such as the full disclosure of documents relative to the implementation of the automated polls. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100615com2.html |
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