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News in Pictures: Deputy Attache of US Department of Homeland Security Seen in Abra During Elections

News in Pictures: Deputy Attache of US Department of Homeland Security Seen in Abra During Elections


BANGUED, ABRA -- Theodore C. Lopez of the US Embassy together with three other companions were in Abra during the elections. Theodore C. Lopez approached a delegate of the PIOM while waiting for the opening of the canvassing area in the Provincial Capitol. The PIOM team asked Vanessa Roncal, supervisor of the Comelec in the region, if she knew about the presence of US embassy personnel in Bangued. Roncal replied that the US embassy personnel came right after the PIOM paid a visit to the Comelec Regional office.

| May 13, 2010

News in Pictures: Defective Equipment, Slow Election Process Greet Voters in Abra

News in Pictures: Defective Equipment, Slow Election Process Greet Voters in Abra


Bangued, ABRA -- In other precincts, people are complaining of the very slow process -- from checking the names of the voters to submitting the ballot to the PCOS machine. Some even went home because they cannot handle the extreme heat. At Precinct #7, BEIs manually collected the ballots. The PCOS machine cannot process the ballots due to defective CF card. The BEI said, they are still waiting for the replacement CF cards to arrive from Manila. A voter told Bulatlat in an interview that the glitches might disenfranchise the votes.

| May 10, 2010

PR: KMU Calls for Vigilance and Action Against Arroyo’s Machinations to Stay in Power

PR: KMU Calls for Vigilance and Action Against Arroyo’s Machinations to Stay in Power


Technical glitches which hounded the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in tests that were administered to these are part of a long series of problems that have occurred in the process of holding the first-ever automated elections in the country. By itself, but especially when seen together with the other problems that have occurred earlier, this failure seriously undermines the credibility of the May 10 elections.

| May 9, 2010

PR: Pagbabago! Calls for Vigilance, Action vs Poll Failure, Massive Fraud

PR: Pagbabago! Calls for Vigilance, Action vs Poll Failure, Massive Fraud


Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Jose Melo must reserve his smile until after the elections. Pagbabago! People's Movement for Change issued the statement as it called for increased public vigilance despite repeated assurances from poll officials that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines are now running perfectly and that elections will push through on Monday.

| May 9, 2010

PR: Bayan Calls for Unity vs. Failure of Election, Fraud and Violence

PR: Bayan Calls for Unity vs. Failure of Election, Fraud and Violence


DAVAO CITY -- In a candle lighting and prayer vigil held at Centennial Park, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Southern Mindanao Region calls for unity among various opposition parties against the plot to fail the upcoming May 2010 election. Bayan expressed disgust over the COMELEC’s failure to patch up possible technical problems exactly four days before the election.

| May 9, 2010

PR: OFW Groups to Form Anti-RAFAEL Alliance; Urge Overseas Filipinos to be Vigilant

PR: OFW Groups to Form Anti-RAFAEL Alliance; Urge Overseas Filipinos to be Vigilant


Alarmed by the recent event when the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) ordered the recall of some 76,000 defective compact flash cards for the voting machines that would possibly lead to failure of elections scenario, an alliance of Filipino migrant workers’ group in the Middle East said it will lead forming a coalition of various OFW groups and individuals against ‘no election’ or failure of election.

| May 9, 2010

News in Pictures: Problems in Machine Startup and Tally of Votes at Pasig City Poll Precinct

News in Pictures: Problems in Machine Startup and Tally of Votes at Pasig City Poll Precinct


In the final testing and sealing in Palatiw Elementary School in Pasig City on May 8, the common problem was the startup of the PCOS machine. The machine in Precinct 107 displayed the COMELEC logo for a long time. The machine had to be turned on and off. Many other machines unexpectedly shut down.

| May 9, 2010

News in Pictures: In Another Makati Poll Precinct, Machine and Manual Counts Did Not Tally

News in Pictures: In Another Makati Poll Precinct, Machine and Manual Counts Did Not Tally


At San Jose Elementary School in Guadalupe Nuevo, Makati City Monday, the machine count does not tally or register votes for mayoralty candidate Ernesto Maceda. In one precinct, election returns reflected 3 votes for mayoralty candidate Erwin Genuino and 1 vote for Edmundo Tagalog.

| May 4, 2010

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