EVMs AND CYBERLAW OF THE PHILIPPINES - MANDATED MANUAL AUDIT
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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EVMs and cyberlaw of the Philippines: mandated manual audit
Article posted February 24, 2010 - 09:48 PM
Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Jose Melo on Wednesday
rejected the idea of conducting the random manual audit before the
declaration of the winners in the May polls, saying that it will only
cause unnecessary delays.
"(We don't want) a simple audit (to) deter proclamation," Melo said
in a press briefing.
The poll body chief issued the statement after some groups asserted
that the random manual audit be done right after the election results
are transmitted and before the winners are proclaimed. (See: More
voting machines should be audited to ensure polls' credibility)
Section 24 of Republic Act 9369 requires a random manual audit to be
conducted in one precinct per congressional district in each province
and city.
"Any difference between the automated and manual count will result in
the determination of root cause and initiate a manual count for those
precincts affected by the computer or procedural error," it further
said.
But Melo said that conducting the audit before the proclamation would
cause a great delay because the auditors would still have to
"reconcile" the marks on a ballot that were recognized and not
recognized by the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine.
"Magkakaroon ng variation yan, magdedebate, madedelay yan. Ang mark
na ganyan, bibilangin ng manual, pero hindi binilang ng makina, sino
paniniwalaan mo (There will definitely be a variation, triggering
debate, which would delay everything. Marks like those that are
counted manually, but not counted by the machine--which would you
believe)," he said.
He further said that it would be fine if only the proclamation of the
winners of the local elections would be delayed, but he said that
even the national positions would have to await proclamation.
"If we are going to delay the proclamation because of a simple
concern of one machine, bakit pa tayo nag-automate (why did we
automate at all)?" he said.
Earlier, the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel)
and the Consortium of Electoral Reforms (CER) also asked the poll
body to increase the number of voting machines that will undergo
auditing.
The groups said that at least 2.5 to 3 percent of the 82,200 PCOS
units or five poll machines per congressional district should be
manually audited to give enough assurance that the results of the
elections are credible. -- Kimberly Jane T. Tan/JV, GMANews.TV
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/184694/comelec-chief-no-audit-before-poll-winners-are-proclaimed#
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