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PCOS machines in Philippine automated elections: failure rates, error rates
According to the news, two of the twenty PCOS machines in Hongkong stopped working for a while. That is a 10% failure rate. Cesar Flores of Smartmatic claims they expect a PCOS failure rate of 0.3-...
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The high-speed printing that misaligned UV marks can misalign the ballot...
The ultraviolet (UV) scanner of the PCOS was disabled because the high-speed printing resulted in the UV mark on the ballot being “misaligned by one to two millimeters”, according to COMELEC...
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How to show that a PCOS voting machine is accurate enough
The COMELEC has already rejected 100% manual audit proposal. That should be the end of it. Yet, it is hard ignore the voices of the country’s major information technology organizations, business...
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HALAL April update: estimated chance of AES success is now 32%; PCOS accuracy...
by Halalang Marangal (HALAL) Last March 2010, Halalang Marangal issued an analysis of the estimated chance of success of the Automated Election System (AES) and put it at 25%. Based on developments in...
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Partial failure of automation has already occurred; how to determine if the...
The printing of 50.85 million ballots for the May 10 elections is now complete. The COMELEC said they were two days ahead of schedule. This early finish, however, was achieved at terrible cost: the...
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Expect a flood of demands for recount from losing candidates
The PCOS fiasco a few days before the May 10 elections has shattered the credibility not only of election automation, but of the entire electoral process itself. The entire process hinges on an...
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Too soon to call 2010 elections successful
It is too soon to declare the 2010 elections a success. People want a successful election so badly, that it is easy to get carried away by flood of incoming election returns. Many want to believe that...
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