GOTCHA By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star) | Updated May 17, 2013 - 12:00am
Disturbingly, tallying by much-touted superfast voting machines bogged down for two-and-a-half days after Election Day. Thirty percent of the results, or about 10 million votes that could alter the initial trend in the senatorial count, remained un-transmitted to central servers. For that, the Comelec and election automation supplier Smartmatic blamed the telcos, the party-lists, the precinct inspectors, the... It was everyone’s fault – except Comelec-Smartmatic’s.
Before that there was a spurt of ballot results from all over. In the few hours from the close of voting Monday till just past midnight, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, a poll watchdog, had come out with 54 percent of the results. Then it slowed down to trickles. By dusk Tuesday, only about 300,000 additional votes were recorded.
At first the PPCRV tally was even too fast. Other poll watchdogs that distrust it as a “Comelec-Smartmatic apologist” noted that it was able to report 12 million votes one mere hour after starting to count, a physical impossibility. The PPCRV acknowledged a computer program error. It only brought back to mind Election 2010, when 256 million votes were reported from only 40 million actual voters. That it took a Smartmatic exec and a tech to fix the watchdog’s bug last Tuesday did not boost credibility any. For it emerged that the PPCRV’s tallying software was made for it by Smartmatic, the very outfit it was supposed to watch.
The older watchdog Namfrel attributed the subsequent delays to modems and compact-flash (CF) cards. Allegedly there were too few modems, very slow at that, so precinct election inspectors had to queue up for long hours to transmit. In other cases, the CF cards were defective and wouldn’t transmit, so the inspectors – public school teachers – had to commute to poblacions to submit these to municipal canvassers.
The delays were concentrated in the usual dagdag-bawas (padding-shaving) areas: the Mindanao autonomous region and the Cordilleras. Another watchdog, the AES (Automated Election System) Watch, suspected that the counting was being manipulated. Criticizing Smartmatic’s precinct count optical scanners, the AES Watch had foreseen the transmission problems. Its computer expert-members warned that the Comelec never tested and retested the PCOS units for debugging, but relied only on Smartmatic’s false assurances of reliability.
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