The 2010 legacy election upgrade: transposing votes from “Si, Senor” to “Opo, Ma’am”
(Photo Credits: Inquirer)
Basically, you can say that our jurassic election system using the legacy dag-dag bawas software version negative one, is getting a much needed upgrade. And how’s the conversion working?
Well, now it can be told officially. The tests produced weird results blares the headline on the Inquirer.
It seems like the votes were being transposed from “Si, Senor” to “Opo, Ma’am“! What do you say? Smartmatic turned into Rosetta Stone!
If that’s not enough, let’s postpone the election! ~!@#$%^!!! As in NO ELECTIONS?! As in ELECTION FAILURE?! What gives now?!
Grr!!!
I have no idea if the events that are taking place are inter-related or that there are any connections whatsoever. However, in this election, there are so many factors at play, I can’t help extrapolating them either as outliers or outright lies with questionable destination.
FIRST,
I’m curious about the Quiboloy endorsement. I do not mean to poke fun, demean or ridicule his conversations with god, lest I earn his and his flocks’ ire for he seem to be taking some calculated risk by throwing his support to Gibo. Will Gibo win? Who knows, but this could be a perfect justification since he’s trailing last on opinion poll surveys. Does a Quiboloy endorsement command vote? Or is there a higher being, slightly lower than god, who assured him that Gibo will win? How will you face your flock if your candidate lost? That god lied to you?
SECOND,
Noynoy Aquino has been consistently leading the pack in opinion polling surveys. True, these surveys do not elect a president, but I would be hard-pressed to believe that one kulelat will suddenly top the election results and win it all!
Reading commentaries from other blogs how these surveys were rigged, manipulated, used as marketing to the point of even accusing Noynoy’s relatives as behind these surveys are just plain ludicrous.
SWS and Pulse Asia are both survey companies. Their business model is simple. It’s founded on credibility. Yes, it is ludicrous to claim that since SWS and Pulse Asia are owned by the Aquino’s and/or people related to the Aquino. Therefore, all of their surveys were manufactured to suit the needs of Noynoy Aquino.
Fact is, SWS and Pulse Asia has everything to lose if they are proven to be biased. Their business relies on being credible. And it’s not just SWS and Pulse Asia that shows consonance of the results. We also have the other following signs pointing towards the same trend:
1) Taylor Nelson Sofres – an established name in market research around the world
2) The DILG Survey – commissioned 2 weeks ago by Secretary Puno himself and, which shows Noynoy leading with 41%
3) Manila Standard Surveys
4) The DZRH Survey
5) The Bombo Radyo Surveys
Although, they’re probably far from being scientific, we can even count more informal polls like:
1) 7-Eleven Cup Poll
2) Fruitas Cup Poll
3) The vast majority of non-secluded online surveys
4) The number of people sporting baller ids and looking for more baller ids to give their friends
5) The number of cars bearing the yellow ribbon sticker. A friend once did a study and found out that 4 out of 10 cars appear to be sporting the sticker. Coincidence or not, this is consistent with what the surveys say.
THIRD,
There will be no parallel count!
If you all recall, the Makati Business Council appealed to the Comelec and requested to consider their proposal for a simplified parallel manual count as a means to guarantee the credibility of the May 10 national elections. (Read the letter here.)
Comelec rejected that proposal. It’s unnecessary according to them. However, they assured the public that all safeguards were in place for credible, accurate and swift voting on May 10.
They said that:
“A parallel manualcount entails a manual recount of the ballotsin all 76,300 precincts nationwide for only three elective posts—president, vice president, and mayors. Under a random manual audit, the ballots for all positions in randomly selected 1,110 precincts nationwide will be counted.”
Besides, it’s specified by law says them:
“A random manual audit, which is provided for in the Automated Elections Law, will ensure that the results transmitted by the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines are credible and accurate.”
In response, the Makati Business Council said:
“Since the PCOS machines have not been pilot-tested before in an actual election as mandated by law, the risk of the machines making mistakes at a rate higher than that provided for (1 mistake out of 20,000), is quite high. We are gravely concerned that without such a verification of the accuracy of these machines, the election may not be accepted by the people as the true reflection of their will.” (Read that letter here.)
FOURTH,
There will be no transparency!
Now, if you have read the report released by the Center for People Empowerment in Governance, in there, they talked about the PCOS. And here’s what they said.
“The Precinct Count Optical Scan-Optical Mark Reader (PCOS-OMR) technology chosen by the Comelec goes against the basic democratic principle of “secret voting and public counting”. This is because OMR system makes the counting, canvassing and consolidation of election results hidden from the public eye and, hence, lacks any transparency as the Constitution and RA 9369 require.”
I’m not ringing some alarming jingle bells in the heat of the summer folks, but if you’re an Overseas Filipino like me, and there’s a million of us watching what’s going on in our country, especially that we are from the outside looking in – it is not a good feeling. Because when you read some PCOS chaos 5 days to the election day, it’s like we’re having a legacy software upgrade to keep Arroyo’s legacy
So, is the election over?
Has it been decided somewhere?
Should I be calm given that Comelec gave me an assurance?
Hmpt!
Tse!
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reynz is one Uragon and a Filipino-American, has many years of public accounting & auditing, broadcast investments, housing tax credits and equity investments as his background. Based in the US, he maintains his personal and humor blog at reyna elena dot com. A graduate of Aquinas U, he went to GWU and Temple U in the United States.
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