Tag: Comelec

Wrongfully declared governors?!

Community issues

How reliable is the Commission on Election (Comelec)? The governors of both Bulacan and Pampanga are both declared wrongful winners of the past election. Both Joselito Mendoza and Ed Panlilio, governors of Bulacan and Pampanga, respectively, are now being asked to step down from their seat. This in favor of Roberto Pagdanganan and Lilia Pineda.

The news just made me think how reliable is the election count when after years it was done, the Comelec will declare that the count was wrong.

Sheesh.

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Two things from the evening news

Community issues
  • Novartis AG reportedly has completed production of a vaccine against the Influenza A(H1N1) virus. It will be available by September and at least 30 countries already sent in their request for the supply of the vaccine to their countries. Philippines will wait for the recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO) before proceeding with our own request. I hope that by the time we made up our mind that we need the vaccines, there will be some more left for us.
  • Smartmatic (www.smartmatic.com) won the bidding on the automated polls for the 2010 Philippine national elections. According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the company has the lowest bid in the P11.2 billion automated contract. Smartmatic’s final bid was P7,191,484,739.48 which is about 4 billion pesos lower than the pegged budget. I hope this will really be effective come 2010 polls. No more ballots stolen perhaps? Hacking now?
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