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Trial and error mark automated election field tests

by Mario Ignacio
VERA Files

Testing transmission
Testing transmission
The Commission on Elections held field tests in Taguig and Pateros Friday to try out the automated voting machines to be used in the May elections.

But in Aguho Elementary School in Pateros, the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine failed several times to transmit the election reports using its modem which had Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards from telecommunication networks Smart, Globe, and Sun.

Only at 11:51 a.m., three hours after the tests started, were the PCOS technicians able to transmit the election reports. In the absence of any signal from the three networks, PCOS technicians used the Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN).

VERA Files’ Mario Ignacio was there. Click here (VERA Files) for his visual report.

Published in2010 elections

15 Comments

  1. Can you imagine on election day, the teachers doing what the guy above is doing, trying hard to send each and every vote cast through that BGAN equipment?

    Bitbit bitbit nila.

  2. bayong bayong

    kasama sa plano gma yan para magkaroon ng failure of election wala na tayong ligtas sa bruha. habang buhay na siyang pinuno ng pilipinas, kaawa-awang bayan.

  3. chi chi

    Matagal nang nasimulan ni Gloria Arroyo ang failure of election!

  4. MPRivera MPRivera

    Comelec: There’s still time to train teachers on poll automation

    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/01/30/10/comelec-theres-still-time-train-teachers-poll-automation

    Aysus! Ugaling nakagisnan. Palamig lamig. Mahaba pa naman ang oras. Madali lang ‘yan, yakang yaka. Kapag nandiyan na’t magagahol ay saka magkukumahog, hindi malaman ang dadamputin. Parang hilong talilong.

    Sino sa palagay ninyo ang bubuntunan ng sisi kapag nagkaloko loko ang eleksiyon? Ang nangungumisyon ba sa Commolect? Ang Ismart-sa-Atik? O, ang kawawang mga sitser na rindido na rin sa hindi malamang responsibilidad na haharapin?

    Nakow! Nakasilip na naman ng butas ang sinalibad ng lintek na ‘yan upang makaiwas sa pananagutan sa taong bayan.

    Panibagong mamahaling iskrap na naman ang labas ng PCOS na ‘yan. Bilyong halaga ng dyank na matetengga’t pagpipistahan ng mga ipis sa bodega habang tuwang tuwa ang mga nakatanggap ng matatabang kumisyon.

    Taragis na baboy ‘yan! Walang kabusugan.

  5. MPRivera MPRivera

    The only way to have a smooth flow of transmission of results during election day is to ask all mobile phone users to put off their units for two days para lumuwag ang traffic.

    Tanong lang, makakatiis ba naman kaya ang mga adik sa teks?

  6. chi chi

    Heh! Kung anu-ano ang dahilan nila. Why didn’t they factor in the traffic caused by mobile phones before they decided on automated elections?! Nakakatawa, nakakahiya at nakakaasar ang picture na yan.

  7. florry florry

    The testing is being done to ensure the failure of elections.

  8. Valdemar Valdemar

    The overhead projector could have saved us all these anxieties, doubts and fights. It is cheaper, more effective, every teacher knows how to use it, can be used forever afterwards. But when it was suggested, it generated a lot of howl from the “COMMISSIONERS” at all levels. Even the unschooled had no praise for it because it does not ring the tune of high technicality. Everyone would see the ballot, the marks when flashed during the canvassing. Recorded on the memory then transmitted to all concerned. Even an amateur could cover evrything on his digital cam.That way we cann account the ballots thru its serial number. But we can still go to it at the rate the automation is killed slowly and surely.

  9. Tedanz Tedanz

    Para namang nagpapalipad ng saranggola yong nasa picture. Yon ba yong binili nila ng ilang bilyon? Baka kumuha lang si Melo ng ipapamana niya sa kanyang maiiwanan pag siya ay binawi na ni kamatayan. Sabi niya siguro kay Glorya …. “melo” bang pagkaka-kuwartahan diyan … sabi ni Glorya meron … doon ka na lang komolek sa comelec.

  10. MPRivera MPRivera

    Enrile pinagbibitiw ni Lapid

    “……Isang linggo na ang nakakaraan, hiniling nina Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. at Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano ang pagbibitiw ni Enrile bilang Senate President upang maiwasan ang lea­dership vacuum oras na pumalpak ang automation ng eleksyon……”

    http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/jan3110/news_story3.htm

    In a way, tama din ang mga kupal na ito.
    Ang tanong lang. Kinukundisyon na ba nila ang isipan ng taong bayan na talagang magkakaroon (kahit panay palpak ang testing 123 ng mga makina) failure ang automotive, este automation election?

    Napag-usapan na ‘ata nila ito, eh.

    Sino kaya ang utak?

    Hindi kaya nababoy ang usapan?

  11. MPRivera MPRivera

    …automated election?

  12. chi chi

    Automatic talaga! Ibubuga na lang basta kung sino ang panalo ayon sa utos ni Gloria!

  13. MPRivera MPRivera

    Pinoy kinokondisyon sa failure of election

    “Kapag pumalpak ang automation ngayong Mayo, mawawalan ng trabaho ang mga taga-Comelec pag pumalpak ulit sila dahil ang taumbayan mismo sa tingin ko ang sisisante sa kanila,” dagdag pa ni Villanueva.

    http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/jan3110/news_story2.htm

    Problema din nating ang ganitong uri ng mga pulitiko.

    Marunong lamang manggatong subalit hindi kayang manguna sa protestang walang atrasan.

  14. chi chi

    Mali.Automatic talaga para ibuga ang forever Gloria!

  15. balweg balweg

    RE: Enrile pinagbibitiw ni Lapid?

    Inang natin Igan MPRivera…si Litu Lapida ba ika mo ang maysabi niyan? Yaks, ang lakas mang alaska e isa rin yang stupido at walang kwentang lingkod-bulsa?

    NO WAY…ngayon pa na bokya na si C5 at Tiyaga!

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