kudos to Smarmatic!!!!

[Quint]

At 7.2 billion pesos, we should expect zero glitches from these machines. Yes, that's not a typo. How many machines? 82,000, + 2,000. If we do the math, that's a whopping P 85,000 per machine. With the prices of computers now, don't you think that a this scanner is grossly overpriced? More importantly, can't transmit the results up to now? C'mon people! We should be more vigilant. Our pwede na yan attitude, as it has been said, has gotten the better of us if you think that this is a success. We just barely passed the standard. At P85,000 per machine, I don't expect glitches on the basic functionalities i.e. CF cards, and modems. You don't get your cars without the engine, or the brakes, or the steering not working, right?

[tsupermario]

^ +1
dati ang matagal ay yung resulta. ngayon ang matagal ay ang pila sa botohan.

[vito corleone]

comelec chairman melo should resign for his performance in this ill-prepared elections. . .it was very evident even before the elections. . .he was claiming being 98% ready on saturday while a lot of pcos machines have yet to be delivered and tested. . .the hardships that the voters and the bei's experienced yesterday only attested to that

also, smartmatic needs to answer to the faulty machines and the trouble they caused

[shadow]

kudos?! what are you talking about?

do you know that the country was in the brink of make or break it because of their incompetence? the country was in very volatile situation in the last couple of days. they put everyone into doubts if we can make it. it was not part of the plan. from the start of the bidding...they declared that the machine should be ready weeks before the election and the machines should be 99.9% free from issues.

a typical pwede-na-mentality again.

in the brink probably, but did we? doubts are always there for new system. pero tapos na ang election and generally it was successful, more or less nakikita na natin ang results in 1 day.


70K+ PCOS machines and 300 or 3K+ lang ang nag bug down. batting average maganda.

as for the glitches it is acceptable since this is the first time that we do this automation.

call spade a spade. your saying Smartmatic didn't deliver what they have promise? it's not perfect but pasadong pasado.

typical pinoy mentality damn if you do, damn if you don't...puro reklamo sa mabagal at manual election and yet reklamo pa rin sa mabilis at automated election..

huwag mainit ang ulo pag natalo ang bet...

[oliver1013]

Oks na din yan, sa susunod logistics nalang aayusin. Yun nga lang didiskartehan na ng madadaya yung next election.

[battaglin]

for me pasadong-pasado. konting fine tuning na lang sa manner ng pagboto.
although I could see that may fault din mga botante, typical pinoy e mahilig sumingit at mang-gulang.
good thing dun sa cluster precint namin e maayos nag-sipila ang voters.
Tapos ako ng 45mins.
300 out of 76,000 machines failing? 0.39% lang yan.
typical birth pains lang yan.

[mrpink]

i wonder how the audit is doing .. given na mabilis lang naman yung automated count .. that should have freed up the folks to startup the manual audit ..

[Monseratto]

Everyone likes to find something to complain about, kaya the crab mentality is alive and well. Given the time Congress took to pass and release funding, bidding and purchase of the machine, the memory card mess and how some politicians didn't even want the electronic count, it was short of a miracle the election even took place. Now eveyone are wowed by how quickly the results came out, and how little evidence of cheating were reported from the use of the PCOS machines (Has any news network interviewed those so-called IT doomsayers lately?). Just be happy the Philippines elections finally took its first steps into the electronic age.

[shadow]

+1, nawala na mga naysayers....hehehe

[ghosthunter]

I am still concerned that election cheating might have happened under our very noses. Like "adjusted" results in the local level election results.

The computers used could have adjusted the actual results to the "preferred" results automatically by their software. As we have seen days before the actual election, the numbers reported by the PCOS machines sometimes do not match (not even close) to the actual count on the test ballots.