Automated or Manual Elections in the Philippines?

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 2, 2009 at 1:29pm

it did? when? Gordon and its proponents were adamant about it...

ikaw naman.. siyempre may pros and cons yan...sa budget nalang..ang hindi ko masearch is how much ba ang cost ng manual elections? para macompare ko...haaay naloloka na ako..

anyway..corruption and cheating it can never be eradicated, however we should strive to reduce it somehow..dont lose hope

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 2, 2009 at 2:05pm

haay naku frans! wala pang ganung balita...san mo nasagap yan? i just called teddy locsin jr.. lol!

kainis ka ha. bagong gising pa naman ako. nashock ako sa post mo. tse!

salamat sa google

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Permalink Reply by Candy Diazes on July 2, 2009 at 4:13pm

Try mo ito:
http://www.electronicslab.ph/forum/index.php?topic=7331.0

and this:

http://www.slate.com/id/2107388/

Wala ako tiwala sa Smartmatic, baka pagkakuha nila ng 7.2 billion pesoseseses ay itakbo nila ito at bumalik sa Barbados na haven ng mga embezzlers and tax dodgers. Kaya siguro umatras ang TIM.

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 2, 2009 at 6:27pm

i just sent my report to my professor! nakakinis! late ka CD! but i'll read it, baka sakaling paexplain niya sa akin ang opinion ko. lol..thank you...

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 2, 2009 at 6:42pm

uuy, i loved that article, yung second link.. slate.com... i second CDs recommendation!


sandali lang, hindi kaya ng brain neurons ko ang technicalities of software development and devices for automated elections...makakita pala ako ng electrical wires nagshushutdown na ang utak ko..ahaha

pero palagay ko kaya ng pilipinong gumawa ng ganyan...bakit kailangan pa ng foreign help? like smartmatic?

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Permalink Reply by Candy Diazes on July 3, 2009 at 12:56pm

JELLE said:

uuy, i loved that article, yung second link.. slate.com... i second CDs recommendation!


sandali lang, hindi kaya ng brain neurons ko ang technicalities of software development and devices for automated elections...makakita pala ako ng electrical wires nagshushutdown na ang utak ko..ahaha

pero palagay ko kaya ng pilipinong gumawa ng ganyan...bakit kailangan pa ng foreign help? like smartmatic?

Filipinos have the expertise and the resources to fabricate their own automated voting machines; kaya lang may mental colony tayo at kaunti lang ang kikitain ng mga Koreans.

Magkano korean?
Magkano commission korean?
Sali a korean.

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 3, 2009 at 11:30pm

i agree! there was a time, on my way too school dalawa lang kami filipinos tapos the rest koreans! My God! naweirduhan talaga ako, it made me wonder...nasan ba aketch? LOL

haay naku...filipinos are brilliant.. the question is, how will they use it. heh

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Permalink Reply by Eric Tipon on July 10, 2009 at 4:47pm

sayang late na pala ako dito sa discussion ...2 days lang kasi eh :(

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 10, 2009 at 6:37pm

ahaha! but you can still post your thoughts...ang haba ng reply ko jan,, dumugo ilong ng mga nagbasa daig pa ang inquirer..haha!

oh wait..i'll post it, sayang naman ang brainpowers ko.. share ko

Automated or Manual Elections for 2010

The drive for an automated election has been initiated since the 2004 elections. However, our leaders manage to find ways to botch up its realization overtime.

Malacañang seems confident that COMELEC can salvage the situation they are into regarding the Total Information Management-Smartmatic dilemma. I think, The Arroyo Administration is in too deep to allow for the 2010 elections to revert to manual polls. However, stranger things have happened in this administration that I have lost the ability to be surprised by its decisions.

What do I think would happen? If Smartmatics does decide to pull out any involvement in the 2010 elections, surely, we would revert to manual elections. Smartmatics is the entity involved in the ARMM elections, TIM during that time was not even involved in the held elections. It doesn’t make any sense, why we are wasting time negotiating with TIM in the first place if we have other alternatives. I say, find ways to make TIM pay for damages, and look for another local partner.

I do have questions, “naiwan sa ere” an individual who was left hanging and clutching for dear life in mid air and survived it, would surely retaliate. Yet Malacañang showed nothing but eerie calmness in receiving the news regarding the TIM pulling out off Smartmatics’ contract on automated elections. The entire country is put into jeopardy because of an entity’s personal interests and professional conflicts, yet the reaction of the government seems a little too passive.

We, Filipinos have the knack of living way beyond our means just so we could follow the trend.

Some do not even know how to hold a pen right, how many percentage of the Filipino people are educated? Computer illiterate? Do we have the resources not to mention the patience to herd the illiterate Filipinos in the step by step process of an automated election? Is it feasible in ten months time? ARMM elections took 3 whole months to prepare for the automated elections, we have ten months left and we have not even taken the first step we are already faced with problems.

Personally, I think automated elections is good, it’s convenient, minimizes the election’s susceptibility for fraud, and it is accurate and yields fast results.

A lot of Filipinos demand guarantees, is it hack free? Is it secure? There are no guarantees, nothing is impenetrable, everything, is a risk. If there is a will there is a way to rig just about anything. My chief concern is, how prepared are we? Security wise, to fend off these threats; education wise, do we have enough time to educate people from all walks of life in the automation system; budget wise, can we afford this method without sacrificing the people’s immediate needs?

Too much eagerness to follow the lead of progressive countries is not a wise decision, we are way behind, we can't just skip lanes or stages. Why can't we for once try to think things through as a whole package and imagine the whole scenario before enforcing our personal convictions?

I agree with automated elections, but do it by stages, do it increment by increment. If we are after a clean election, then enforce automation in those areas where cheating is rampant, Even COMELEC recognizes the fact that cheating is not happening all over the Philippines, rather there are areas which are vulnerable and known for ill practices during elections. These areas are known to COMELEC, why not concentrate automated resources on those areas for the meantime, while the country is still coping and adjusting with all this innovation and then slowly move to a national level.

I believe haste, makes waste.

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 10, 2009 at 6:38pm

o diba bongga! nakakalula!

kahit ako tinatamad kong basahing muli.. LOL

anyway my professor posited that sana sa SK elections muna or barangay level muna...which i admit, is quite a better idea than mine.. haha! kaya lang as to no avail..automated elections is going for the gooollld~ haha

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Permalink Reply by wenZ on July 10, 2009 at 8:55pm

good news pipirmahan na daw nila yung kasunduan har har har

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Permalink Reply by JESELLE DAYRIT on July 10, 2009 at 9:05pm

good news to them...7.3B damn

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