The upcoming elections this May 10 is scaring the bejeezus out of me. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) can keep on issuing press releases to try to assuage our fears of election failure but there are so many holes in the system and process.

Just why am I worried and why you should be?

1. The lack...

With the Supreme Court's recent final and favorable ruling, there's no more stopping our road to the poll automation on May 10. The doubts and worries coming from many concerned citizens are understandable, because we are embarking on a new, unfamiliar terrain with less than three months to go.

AES Watch, at a presscon held at Club Filipino last January 18, 2010, presented the group’s rating on 20 areas of concern for the 2010 automated elections. These 20 items fell into four categories (1) setting up; (2) trustworthiness of the internal workings of the machine; (3) training of personnel ...

A long time ago, the daughter of Lord Byron, better known as the Countess Ada King of Lovelace encoded a set of rules to be followed that was to be processed by a device called the Analytical Engine. Thus, Countess Lovelace penned the first source code, which in turn became the first computer progr...

It is 5 months before the May 2010 elections. Pulse Asia reveals their latest survey on Knowledge of the Automated Election System. Their survey fieldwork conducted from October  22 to 30, 2009 reveal that "Most Filipinos (61%) have little or almost no knowledge at all about the automated election syste...