Source code firm Dominion sheds light on voting glitch

Posted at 05/07/2010 7:32 PM | Updated as of 05/08/2010 1:31 AM

MANILA, Philippines - A Canada-based software firm who leased the source code for the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines for the May 10 Philippine polls has shed light on the glitch that caused the machines to incorrectly read the ballots.

Sean Dean, product manager of Dominion Voting Systems, said the company only found out about the voting machine glitch during the final testing and sealing of PCOS machines in several municipalities last Monday.

Dean said Dominion representatives received clearance from the Commission on Elections to investigate the program files, which allowed them to isolate the problem in the compact flash cards.

"We reacted immediately by getting permission from Comelec to go to the warehouse to start doing some debugging and testing. It only took about an hour before we figured out what the problem was," he told ABS-CBN News.

Poll machine supplier Smartmatic-TIM earlier said wrong configurations in the compact flash cards affected the automated count for the local positions. Smartmatic Southeast Asia president Cesar Flores said an adjustment in the ballot design for the local elections affected the machine count.

Dean said Dominion representatives were able to adjust the configurations in the compact flash cards, which are needed to count the votes for more than 2,200 local municipalities and districts in the May 10 polls. He said the new configurations were finished in the morning of Wednesday.

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In response to doubts on the integrity of the program and automation system, Dominion said it is staking its name that nobody interfered or had any access in the generation of the program files and configuration process.

"At no point was there any outside party involved in the configuration of the ballots and the election files. It was all done by ourselves and supervised only from a viewing perspective by the Comelec but other than that they didn't have access to the station. They didn't touch it. It was all strictly done by us," he said.

During the interview, Dean remained confident that 76,000-plus compact flash cards will be configured Friday, just 3 days before the election. He conceded, however, that the next challenge is delivering the flash cards to all municipalities in time for Monday's polls.

Dean denied previous articles accusing Dominion of questioning Smartmatic's contract with Comelec. He said the Dominion-Smartmatic partnership remains strong, as shown by the company's presence during the entire bidding process for the automation contract.

The Dominion official said fraud or manipulation of votes is impossible once the ballot enters the PCOS. He said once the PCOS reads the ballot, there is no way for the vote or count to be changed because of the 128-bit encryption, which is the same protective encryption used by banks.


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God bless the Philippines

For whatever it’s worth, consider this a final appeal before you go to the polls on Monday: Do not or never ever in your mind vote for Manuel Villaroyo or Erap Estrada.

Do not vote for Manny Villaroyo and Erapoyo because they are corrupt and incompetent. They have done nothing, but misery and bad, to deserve your vote; they will most likely do corruption and will steal more —which most certainly cannot be good—if he becomes president.

Do not vote for Manny Villaroyo and Erap Estrada because they are nothing but an opportunist and leeches in the society. They are heavily indebted to their relatives,cronies, political advisers like Gloria Arroyo and the gang, command-vote buying and financial backers, all of whom will most likely call the parasites and leeches of politics.

Make the important decisions of who we want to rule our beloved country - VOTE for Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas tandem) you will be seeing the change if these two will become the leader of our country.

Do not vote for Manny Villaroyo because of the continuing injustice; C5 scandal and the land grabbing from the poor citizen. As a Senator, Manny Villaroyo together with his cronies President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the “Hello Garci” scandal because they needed Mrs. Arroyo’s help to get the Villaroyo's family off the hook in the C5 scandal and land grabbing crimes he and his empire have committed.

When it became clear that the family could not wiggle out of the injustice and the oppressed poor farmers? This poor farmers would be forced instead to give up the lands as their only way of living, It's time to take Manny Villaroyo to court and may he serve and long awaiting jail time for the crime he committed.

Voting for Manny Villaroyo or Erap Estrada as president will continue the farce of Land grabbing, stealing, bribery and corruption for another 4 years in office,

Do not vote for Manny Villaroyo or Erap Estrada because they are liars, opportunist and corrupt politicians in history.

Do not vote for Manny Villaroyo or Erapoyo trapo because they also lied about the security stock exchange scandal . To this day, Manny Villaroyo has not explained and was mute about the issues that he is implicated to and would not want to answer any questions regarding their involvement.

Do not vote for Villaroyo because he is a liar two-faced and traditional politician who is a great pretender as poor and he will say anything to a particular group and buy their votes to get elected as president. He keeps the progressive pro-choice advocates believing that he is for contraception (as he was in the House) and claims to be as his way of getting the votes when he is talking to the Church groups and media. BE CAREFUL OF THIS MAN.

Manny Villaroyo is also willing to dump his long-suffering partner Loren Legarda for Binayorro another pathetic infidels who has nothing but to air out dirty laundry in public just to get the sympathy of voters. But alas, Mar will win anyway
DO NOT LISTEN TO JAIHO because he was paid with huge amount of money from the Villaroyo and like Willie Revillame he is pushing for the opportunist and liar Manny Villaroyo. Let’s make sure that Manny Villaroyo and Erapoyo trapo will not win, if only because you really want to know if they can lead our country to install them in Malacañang, just like their Master Gloria Arroyo the pandak. For one thing, Erapoyo is been proven criminal and was impeach for doing so. Manny Villaroyo will follow suit when new administration kick in. Manny will be kaput and we all hope that the new administration will not pardon this criminal.

And don’t vote for Manny Villaroyo simply because you have fond memories of the scholarship award, and his throwing of money like water to people for them to believe that he is really for the poor? Not because you hate the current president, Manny Villaroyo and Erapoyo are no difference than Gloria Arroyo. They are all the same corrupt and opportunist.

Don’t vote for Manny Villaroyo and Erapoyo because they said, they will not steal again and would make our country a better place to live. Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas vow to curve corruption and will not steal because both are already rich and they are tired and sick of these anomaly and trademark of the corrupt politician in office today.

Everyone knows it is wrong to steal (but not for Manny Villaroyo and Erap Estrada because this is their hobby and way of living)—why would Noynoy be voted into office simply for promising to do what everyone should be doing? "THOU SHALL NOT STEAL" and NOYNOY AND MAR will not steal. THEIR GOAL IS TO CLEAN UP THE BAD IMAGE OF POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND I HOPE WE ARE ALL FOR IT. I KNOW I AM.....ARE YOU?

AND LASTlY, Please DON’T LISTEN to those corrupt politicians LOYALISTS who are running. THEY HAVE ONE INTENTION, to get your trust and Votes so they can continue their lifestyle of corruption and injustice.

TIME FOR A CHANGE AND LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN AND DO IT ALL TOGETHER.

LP STRAIGHT!
VOTE FOR NOYNOY AQUINO AND MAR ROXAS TANDEM FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT…

GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES…..


Philippines is the guinea pig...

Thanks to SMARTMATIC and Comelec, Philippines is the guinea pig of this project.

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Why? How?

They said they tested it before. It worked. Then, they tested in the field. It didn't work. What was the cause?

CF Problem? Human error? What human error? How? Why? Unless they can give us a deeper answer, we can't even start to believe that it will work. They seem to be describing the surface only. No one can be criticized for distrusting these machines.

To me, if it's a real CF problem, the machines should not fail by just miscounting. It should fail at startup. It smells fishy when it's the scanning and counting the fails.

Now they are rushing the fix and testing. Under these highly abnormal circumstances, the adequacy and reliability of the testing is already highly questionable.

"If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong" - Murphy's Law


Rise, Philippines! Spread your wings! You're the morning eagle!

Come Election Day, no darkness can invalidate my vote to Bro. Eddie Villanueva. No matter what, my one vote to him is one enormous blessing coming my way. I encourage everyone to invite such blessing into your life--you just have to vote wisely with utmost humbleness in trusting God's wonderful intervention and in seeking His Will. I found it in a vote for Eddie, how about YOU?


Rise, Philippines! Spread your wings! You're the morning eagle!

Come Election Day, no darkness can invalidate my vote to Bro. Eddie Villanueva. No matter what, my one vote to him is one enormous blessing coming my way. I encourage everyone to invite such blessing into your life--you just have to vote wisely with utmost humbleness in trusting God's wonderful intervention and in seeking His Will. I found it in a vote for Eddie, how about YOU?



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