The PCOS machine in Polling Center ID 62712 at Bgy. Balangasan Elementary School, in Pagadian City, covering precinct numbers 0005a, 0005b, 0006a, 0007a, and 0007b, malfunctioned twice this morning, first at 9:28 am then at 10:30 am. Voting was temporarily suspended.

PCOS problems   At the Muntinlupa Elementary School’s Clustered Precinct 102 in Muntinlupa City, the PCOS machine failed to start twice. When the it was finally turned on, the screen read “problem detected with memory card” A PCOS machine in Tarabucan, Calbayog in Samar broke down, with smoke coming out from the machine At the [...]

  Kontra Daya Press statement May 6, 2013   The Commission on Elections (Comelec) intends to use today’s final testing and sealing (FTS) to assure the public of the credibility of the upcoming polls and the reliability of the automated election system (AES). Unfortunately, the results of the FTS merely reinforced the widespread public fear [...]

PRESS RELEASE MAY 6, 2013 DAVAO CITY – A clean and orderly May 13 elections is elusive should problems related to the country’s second poll automation remain unresolved as monitored in today’s Final Testing and Sealing (FTS) in the three districts here, says poll watchdog Kontra Daya.   UP Professor Aya Ragragio, convener of Kontra [...]

Kontra Daya field monitors in Davao City reported that a member of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in one precinct there was suddenly replaced for the conduct of the final testing and sealing (FTS) today. Teachers at the Calinan Central Elementary School said that the original third member of their BEI was suddenly replaced [...]

Dahil sa kakulangan ng kaalaman kung paano i-set up ang makina, naantala ang final testing and sealing (FTS) ng mga PCOS machine sa Diosdado P. Macapagal Elementary School sa Tatalon, Quezon City. Lumipas ang isang oras pero wala pa ring nakakapag-ayos ng mga PCOS machine sa walo nitong presinto. Nang magsimula na ang FTS, inulat ng [...]

In Davao City, Kontra Daya field monitors reported various problems faced by the final testing and sealing (FTS) of the PCOS machines.   At the Kabacan Elementary School, the manual count and PCOS count did not match. The PCOS count lacked 1 vote each for Senator and Councilor.   A PCOS machine at the Buhangin Central [...]

  Comelec’s final testing and sealing (FTS) at the UP Integrated School (UPIS) faced an odd situation after election officials disclosed that they do not have the paraphernalia to seal the PCOS machine.   Members of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) at first refused to operate the PCOS machine because they do not have [...]

Despite claims by Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. that the final testing and sealing (FTS) of PCOS machines in the first district of Pasay City today went on smoothly, poll watchdog Kontra Daya reported several problems in precincts that the group monitored. At the P. Villanueva Elementary School, for instance, Kontra Daya field monitors reported [...]

Poll irregularities in the Visayas as monitored by Kontra Daya Less than 3 hours before the scheduled close of precincts on election day, concerns arise in Visayas over the “emerging trend of massive and prevalent disenfranchisement of voters,” according to election watchdog group Kontra Daya, based on the deluge of reports regarding problems with voting [...]