Of Venezuelans of Filipinos?

Thus, Comelec decided that all the PCOS machines be retrieved. However, AES Watch analyzed that a week would not be enough to make the PCOS machines count accurately. Through the Philippine Computer Society, they petitioned the Supreme Court to postpone the election for some weeks to give time for re-programming and retesting. But it was denied!

Further, the mock elections only showed that the PCOS machines had 97 percent accuracy vis the required 99.995 percent; the success rate of transmitting the elections results was only 90 percent; the election results were not digitally signed; there was no source code review; there were Spanish words found in some ballot images; and the PCOS machines didn’t gener (VVPAT) or voter’s receipt.

As critical as the above are, the hash codes found in the 60 PCOS machines seized in Antipolo differed from what the Comelec had published; that is, the computer program was altered! Worse, the registered voters pegged in the databases of the Batasan and PICC computer servers were 256 million and 150 million, respectively, when in fact that we only had 50 million voters then. Good thing, Smartmatic revealed the truth that it was due to ‘error in application.’ Since no digital signatures were employed, AES Watch commented that those who served from 2010 to 2013 were proclaimed winners in violation of the AES law; that is, Sections 22 and 25 stipulate that the electronically transmitted and digitally signed election returns/ - and shall be used as the basis for proclaiming a winning candidate.

Weeks later, the Comelec Advisory Council recommended in its report not to use Smartmatic for the 2013 elections and beyond.

With countless violations and technical problems of Smartmatic with RA 9369, the Comelec was placed in tremendously stressful situations. AES Watch raised so many questions as to who should be liable for these nonconformities. If not Comelec,…then Smartmatic! But since then, Comelec has been so silent about it. But why? In the banking industry, they never allow service providers to implement such defective systems that would drive away its depositors.

Not waiting for the Comelec’s move, in 2011 at the University of the Philippines, AES Watch launched the Filipino IT for Elections (FIT4E) in search of the best AES solutions designed by Filipinos. Former Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes was the guest of honor and manifested his support for the FIT4E. In turn, some universities quickly prepared their prototypes so they could participate. FIT4E supports “

for the 2019 national and local elections. AES Watch abhors the political ways of Smartmatic, using their ‘ to interfere with our democracy.

Episode IV (2011-2013).