This fence sitter is coming down from her post because some time in your life you have to get into the action. There are others out there who may be complaining about how things are turning out but are unwilling to get involved. The only way for change to happen is for us to get moving and make it happen.
Actually, that is far from the point of this post. It seems to me that we are being complacent about the automated elections. We see that it produced a count and we trust that it will do the same on election day. Now, there was a glitch found. Something I find strange because shouldn't the COMELEC and Smartmatic have been working hand in hand from the start. Were not the programmers told about the design of the ballot?
So there was a problem in the testing. The solution? Change the program with the corrected version. We will just sit tight and watch as the provider replaces the memory disk in each machine. We are giving them one weekend to run the tests. If there is another glitch, we will probably postpone the elections or revert to manual counting which will be a nightmare for the teachers really.
So they will replace the memory disk Has anybody audited the program they are putting in there? Yes, I see a reason to look at the conspiracy theory. In whose favor? I have my guess but that's just what it is so let's not speculate here. I am only forwarding a concern from a practicing systems person.
Who is doing quality control for the software in the PCOS machines?
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