US observers urge poll code overhaul 07/11/2011

US observers urge poll code overhaul

07/11/2011
The government should overhaul the country’s Omnibus Election Code to develop a single, comprehensive electoral law that fully considers and integrates provisions for automation, US-based observers of the 2010 computerized elections recommended in a recent report on the conduct of the polls last year.

The international election observation mission identified with former US President Jimmy Carter, nevertheless, cited the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its private partner Smartmatic-Total Information Management Corp. for their “hard work” in conducting the country’s first-ever automated voting last year that was “marked by relatively high public confidence and trust on the use of the optical mark recognition technology.”

This mission led by the Carter Center, which is a global peace and health advocacy nongovernment organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, observed in its 70-page final report on last year’s Philippine elections that “results transmission was generally successful, with Comelec and the technology vendor working in concert to provide necessary assistance to poll workers through written instructions expert assistance, and a national call center.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110711hed2.html