Unsay thoughts ninyo aning pagchange sa mga memory cards sa mga PCOS machines?

[YellowSubmarine]

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Palpak ang smartmatic kay karon pa nila gitestingan ug ingon-ani. Di man siguro ni tikas. Palpak lang jud sila. Dapat ila ni gitestingan daan before they shipped the machines out.

[hulagway]

ask lang ko..sa una ba katong manual pa ang counting wala ba d i problema? i mean the fisrt time it was used? pariha raman cguro na sa mga OS nga na bugs dili man jud cguro na malikayan..dili man pud jud ma perfect ang system kung gamiton the first time so expect jud ta nga naa problema...but yup i agree gamay ra jud kaayo ang time nga gigahin sa pag test sa system....

kibaw ko nga naa nga it professionals diri pro dili pud nato unta i understatement ang capability sa taga smartmatic diba?,mas naa sila full knowledge regarding pcos machine kaysa nato diri..

[amingb]

mao na ang problema dnha...people who dont have any IT background thinks that it easy to develop such thing... pro dli in ana kadali...a new product would consume at least 2 years of development...pro sa PCOS last year pa ngbidding pa gyud wla pa msugdan ug develop...how can they assure the quality of the product where the developemtn time is less...wherein it involves much time in testing and fixing issues...there are millions of possibilities or inputs nga mkita ang bugs sa usa ka product...and this is very important coz the future of the countyr lies in this PCOS machines...nya krn panic mode na unsa pa man sakto mbuhat ana kng panic mode na.

Example lnag sa toyota cars...sakto pa gni kau na ang development time nila pro naa ghapon bug sa ila product and resulted to deaths of multiple people...same ra na sa PCOS...

kanan PCOS machine bro existing naman na ang problema diha kanang Card kay sayop ang Program ... mao nay gi ingon nga ga yaya lang na sila .... siguro nag develop sa Program mga amateurist pa ... grabi sab inig deploy ana at least unta testingan tanan before final testing ... mag duda man sab ta.

Anyway dili hinoon na dako nga Problema ang naka apan lang kay hapit na election ... ang uban private corporation mo offer nalang gud sa mga Helicopter ug Airplane nila aron lang jud dili malangay.

[jamzy]

i sense another people power ani dah... hahayzzz... philippines. kalooy nimo ....

[mortal_bane]

MANILA, Philippines—Now, it can be told officially. The tests produced weird results.
This sent embarrassed officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its partner, Smartmatic-TIM, scrambling to save the historic computerized balloting on May 10 by recalling 76,000 compact flash (CF) cards that are in the heart of the counting machines.
“We didn’t expect this to come out, but we are responding on time,” Cesar Flores, spokesperson for Smartmatic-TIM, at a nationally televised news conference said.
Flores blamed the glitches, which first surfaced in two precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines last month at the start of advance overseas voting in Hong Kong, on “human error.”
“We are taking all measures to remedy this,” Flores said, just five days before the May 10 national and local elections.
“We are optimistic that there will be no failure of elections,” said Commissioner Rene Sarmiento. “We are taking all measures to remedy this.”
“I will not be honest if I will say that my confidence has not been diminished because, as I said, what will happen next?” said Henrietta de Villa, chair of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), the Comelec’s citizen’s arm.
In mock elections on Monday conducted by the Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM in six towns in Occidental Mindoro, votes for presidential candidates Manny Villar and Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III were counted for Gilberto Teodoro Jr. of the administration party, according to the Nacionalista Party (NP).
This prompted supporters of Villar led by his NP spokesperson and senatorial candidate Gilbert Remulla to rush to the Comelec office in Manila to file a complaint.
Automated cheating?
Remulla showed to reporters a tally sheet from the PCOS and a manual count.
“There were five votes for Villar, five votes for Aquino, but when it came out (in the machine), there were no votes for Villar, no votes for Noynoy and 10 votes for Teodoro,” Remulla said.
“Is this automated cheating?” he asked, adding that the inability of the machines to properly count the votes in the mock elections proved persistent talk of a failure of elections.
Comelec officials reported that in tests in three far-flung towns of Cuyo, Magsaysay and Brooke’s Point in Palawan province, the machines only read portions of the ballots containing the names of candidates for national races, according to the Inquirer’s Southern Luzon Bureau.
Similar problems occurred in tests in the provinces of Bataan and Pampanga.
Flores said that the eleventh-hour glitch surfaced Monday during testing and sealing of machines in 50 to 100 precincts to show that the automated election system is working and has no malicious data.
Cards to be replaced
He said the problem was in the flash cards, equivalent to the SIM card in cell phones.
Although the company has no final numbers on defective compact flash cards, it is moving to replace the memory cards for all the 76,000 PCOS machines already sent to regional hubs for field distribution, according to Flores.
Present at the news conference were representatives from the Comelec Advisory Council (CAC) and its technical evaluation committee, and Makati City Rep. Teodoro Locsin Jr., one of the co-chairs of the Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Elections.
The wrong tallies stemmed from the memory cards, Flores said.
He noted that the cards contained wrong “instruction” regarding the local ballot face that caused the PCOS machines to give “contradictory” readings of the names and the votes for the local contests.
Officials said the PCOS machine read the races for the national posts correctly.

Source: INQUIRER.net

[chill_angel25]

5 votes for villar
5 votes for noynoy

ang nigawas 10 votes para ni gibo


tuweweng... na.a sa inquirer na news ganina

hahahha!!...
mao jud!

[devnull]

i sense another people power ani dah... hahayzzz... philippines. kalooy nimo ....

moadto ka? ingna unya ko kay mosabay ko

pero maniguro sa ta nga ang mga magpasi-ugda mao jud mag-una sa marcha...
People power? Here’s Joker’s advice - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

[pseudonitz]

“Focus and get to work. If it is necessary to move the election date by a week to ensure reliability of the machines, then do it. Work on the solution.”

“These are tough decisions but they have to be made. Any CEO knows that problems arise at the last minute but panic is pointless because it does not solve the problem.” --Dick Gordon

more here:
Dick Gordon: 'Failure not an option' - FROM THE STANDS By Domini M. Torrevillas | The Philippine Star >> News >> Opinion

[devnull]

i could just imagine what it would be like working at comelec or being one of the tech guys at smartmatic-tim configuring the replacement cf cards right now. imagine the pressure going thru these guys right now. enormous.

the technical (configuration) problem itself as portrayed by cesar flores seems trivial but it's something that shouldn't have happened this late. makapungot. i think their biggest problem now is logistics. procuring those replacement cf cards and getting them to the pcos machines that were already shipped.

sen. gordon is right, if it's necessary to postpone the election then comelec should declare it so by tom (friday). then there's the question of how easy would it be to convene congress for a special session to act on this? tsk tsk.

kinsa man mga relihiyoso diri? palihug lang i-ampo nga madayon karon lunes.
papalit ko ugma ug manok bisaya. padug-an ko ni.

[risklight]

one word ra meaning ani *Fail* :P~