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[Title] => Comelec: 2010 poll automation still on
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines - Poll automation in 2010 would push through even with the disqualification of firms bidding to provide automated counting machines (ACMs), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2009-05-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => LGUs back use of ACMs in 2007 polls
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Local chief executives urged yesterday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to utilize the mothballed automated counting machines (ACMs) instead of bidding for another set to be used for next year’s midterm elections.
Local officials led by Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado, president of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) said the Comelec has to make use of the ACMs instead of purchasing new untested machines, considering the time left in preparation for next year’s polls.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Charges, suspension: Binay had it coming
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CONDOLENCE: This personal footnote has nothing to do with the suspension of Makati Mayor Jojo Binay. It is more about his getting so rattled by Malacanang’s mailed fist that he gets confused over little things.
Jojo, who I remember from our UPROTC days as a good soldier and a fast worker, sent me a letter of condolence days ago. Why he did, I don’t know.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
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[Title] => A looming disaster
[Summary] => Just a little over a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not use 1,991 automated counting machines in the 2007 polls, the Office of the Ombudsman cleared the election officials who paid P1.2 billion for the ACMs of any criminal or administrative liability.
Where does the Ombudsman’s decision place the ruling of the nation’s highest court?
And what does this bode for the conduct of the midterm elections next year? It’s a disaster in the making.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-04 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan
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[Title] => Liga ng mga Barangay asks SC to allow public testing of ACMs
[Summary] =>
The 1.5 million Liga ng mga Barangay (LB) has joined calls for the Supreme Court to allow public testing of the much disputed automated counting machines (ACMs) to determine their accuracy and reliability for eventual use in next year’s elections.
Public testing of 1,991 ACMs is a giant step towards the ultimate goal of automation to spare the country from perennial election counting disputes, LB president and Marinduque board member James Marty Lim said.
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[Title] => Pimentel lauds SC ruling on ACMs
[Summary] => Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. yesterday commended the Supreme Court for denying the petition of President Arroyo’s election lawyer to allow the use of automated counting machines (ACMs) purchased by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in 2003.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-25 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1500820
[AuthorName] => Marvin Sy
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[Title] => SC junks ACM use for poll upgrade
[Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) denied yesterday the petition of the election lawyer of President Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro to allow the poll body and the Department of Science and Technology to use 1,991 automated counting machines or ACMs purchased by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in next year’s elections.
In an 11-page en banc resolution, the high tribunal invoked its earlier decision voiding a contract between the Comelec and a private consortium.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano
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[Title] => Abalos: Counting machines can still be used
[Summary] => The automated counting machines (ACM) supplied by the Mega Pacific consortium under its aborted poll automation project with the Commission on Elections remain in excellent working condition, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said yesterday.
Abalos said the 1,991 ACMs, which he noted were certified as 100 percent accurate by experts from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), can be used to automate the counting and canvassing of the 2007 elections "provided that the legal environment allows it."
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-30 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada
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[Title] => Comelec fights back via Internet
[Summary] => Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners have drawn the battle lines on the Internet to counter an online signature campaign seeking their resignation.
Posted on the Comelec website is a statement urging the public not to vote blindly and be fooled by some people using "half truths" to destroy the poll body.
The Comelec said the online petition of supposed information technology experts led by a certain Augusto Lagman is but the latest salvo in what appears to be a determined campaign to undermine the country’s democratic institutions.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-31 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
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[Title] => Comelec seeks P1.5 B for equipment that purges double registrants
[Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is hoping to purchase new election equipment to help purge double registrants even as its automated counting machines continue to gather dust in a warehouse somewhere.
Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the "matching equipment" would be covered by the P1.5 billion for the poll body’s modernization program in its 2006 budget now up for approval in Congress.
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[Title] => Comelec: 2010 poll automation still on
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines - Poll automation in 2010 would push through even with the disqualification of firms bidding to provide automated counting machines (ACMs), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2009-05-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => LGUs back use of ACMs in 2007 polls
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Local chief executives urged yesterday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to utilize the mothballed automated counting machines (ACMs) instead of bidding for another set to be used for next year’s midterm elections.
Local officials led by Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado, president of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) said the Comelec has to make use of the ACMs instead of purchasing new untested machines, considering the time left in preparation for next year’s polls.
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[Title] => Charges, suspension: Binay had it coming
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CONDOLENCE: This personal footnote has nothing to do with the suspension of Makati Mayor Jojo Binay. It is more about his getting so rattled by Malacanang’s mailed fist that he gets confused over little things.
Jojo, who I remember from our UPROTC days as a good soldier and a fast worker, sent me a letter of condolence days ago. Why he did, I don’t know.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 135304
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804858
[AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => A looming disaster
[Summary] => Just a little over a month after the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not use 1,991 automated counting machines in the 2007 polls, the Office of the Ombudsman cleared the election officials who paid P1.2 billion for the ACMs of any criminal or administrative liability.
Where does the Ombudsman’s decision place the ruling of the nation’s highest court?
And what does this bode for the conduct of the midterm elections next year? It’s a disaster in the making.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133252
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1807094
[AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Liga ng mga Barangay asks SC to allow public testing of ACMs
[Summary] =>
The 1.5 million Liga ng mga Barangay (LB) has joined calls for the Supreme Court to allow public testing of the much disputed automated counting machines (ACMs) to determine their accuracy and reliability for eventual use in next year’s elections.
Public testing of 1,991 ACMs is a giant step towards the ultimate goal of automation to spare the country from perennial election counting disputes, LB president and Marinduque board member James Marty Lim said.
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[Title] => Pimentel lauds SC ruling on ACMs
[Summary] => Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. yesterday commended the Supreme Court for denying the petition of President Arroyo’s election lawyer to allow the use of automated counting machines (ACMs) purchased by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in 2003.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1500820
[AuthorName] => Marvin Sy
[SectionName] => Headlines
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[URL] =>
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[Title] => SC junks ACM use for poll upgrade
[Summary] => The Supreme Court (SC) denied yesterday the petition of the election lawyer of President Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro to allow the poll body and the Department of Science and Technology to use 1,991 automated counting machines or ACMs purchased by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in next year’s elections.
In an 11-page en banc resolution, the high tribunal invoked its earlier decision voiding a contract between the Comelec and a private consortium.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097133
[AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
)
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[Title] => Abalos: Counting machines can still be used
[Summary] => The automated counting machines (ACM) supplied by the Mega Pacific consortium under its aborted poll automation project with the Commission on Elections remain in excellent working condition, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said yesterday.
Abalos said the 1,991 ACMs, which he noted were certified as 100 percent accurate by experts from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), can be used to automate the counting and canvassing of the 2007 elections "provided that the legal environment allows it."
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1650428
[AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada
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[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 314459
[Title] => Comelec fights back via Internet
[Summary] => Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners have drawn the battle lines on the Internet to counter an online signature campaign seeking their resignation.
Posted on the Comelec website is a statement urging the public not to vote blindly and be fooled by some people using "half truths" to destroy the poll body.
The Comelec said the online petition of supposed information technology experts led by a certain Augusto Lagman is but the latest salvo in what appears to be a determined campaign to undermine the country’s democratic institutions.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-31 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097338
[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
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[Title] => Comelec seeks P1.5 B for equipment that purges double registrants
[Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is hoping to purchase new election equipment to help purge double registrants even as its automated counting machines continue to gather dust in a warehouse somewhere.
Comelec Commissioner Mehol Sadain said the "matching equipment" would be covered by the P1.5 billion for the poll body’s modernization program in its 2006 budget now up for approval in Congress.
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