Despite great strides having been made in the campaign to ensure that all registered voters have biometrics data in their voter registration records, a lot remains to be done. These numbers of registered voters with incomplete biometrics – or none at all – broken down by Region, speak for themselves. NCR – 549,614 CAR – […]
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Dec
Dec
For almost a week now, PLDT Home DSL – or whatever the duck it’s called – has not been delivering services the way we contracted it would. The contract is simple enough. Once a month, I fork over enough money to keep me fed for about a week, in exchange for the ability to connect […]
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Dec
Dec
Dear everyone saying government failed because it set a zero-casualty goal but people died anyway: You are getting it all wrong. A zero-casualty goal should not be considered by any reasonable person to be an absolute statistic. Instead, it should be considered a frame of mind and a guiding philosophy. A person – whether a […]
04
Dec
Dec
Or more accurately: the headlines I wish the papers would run with tomorrow. But that’s too long a title. “2 COMPANIES BID FOR AUTOMATION” Yeah, because two companies did submit their eligibility requirements (which, technically, form part of their bids) for the COMELEC’s procurement of 23,000 optiucal mark reader (OMR) ballot counting machines: […]
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Nov
Nov
Manny Pacquiao is the ultimate hyphenate star of the Philippines. Boxer-basketballer-Congressman-Pastor-Billboard … he’s got so many titles under his belt it’s ridiculous. What isn’t ridiculous though, is that Manny Pacquiao is most definitely living the Filipino dream. Whether we admit it or not, we all wish we were Pacquiao. Think about it. He’s stupendously good […]
24
Nov
Nov
Tinkering with the site again. This never ends.
23
Nov
Nov
I suppose I got a sense of it when I first read the books by Suzanne Collins, but watching The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 really brought the message home: Mockingjay is mocking us. Not in a bad way, but in the way that makes us realize that dystopias aren’t just scenarios of a […]
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Nov
Nov
You think a return to manual vote counting is good? You need a history lesson. In the early years of automation, the need to minimize human intervention in the vote counting and canvassing aspects of elections was accepted doctrine. Human intervention at the precinct level introduces vulnerability to fraud at two levels: first, in the […]
01
Nov
Nov
Saw this myself yesterday. I went with my mom to a generics pharmacy. No other customer. I wander around a bit and when I look back, all of a sudden there are two other people at the same counter. A middle aged man standing by my mother’s right elbow, appearing to be waiting to be […]
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