PCOS machine failure= election fail?

Philippines
May 5, 2010 8:59am CST
What do you think will happen to our election this coming May 10 after having some problems with the machine. Can the COMELEC hold the election properly on the said date? With few days left some precincts haven't tested their machines.... What do you think about postponing the election for a few days to a week?
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• United States
15 Dec 11
i havnt heard about any of that.. what is that about?
@junmae (1586)
• Philippines
6 May 10
I am o devastated on what happening to our government right now. i dont know what is happening to the officals who are very eager for the positon that will be left y the President. I cant belive that there are really evil people who can do everything just to get what they want, and it is the position that all of the politicians wnated to have. I heard many negative news that will happen but I hope that God will guide us.
@kharlav (1669)
• Philippines
6 May 10
I think it would be proper to postpone the election to really have a true election without possibility of error. Based on my experience, cramming is not good. AS i can see here, we are cramming and we are not yet ready to use this PCOS machine. You can cram during exams but not during election because this election is a very important decision that we have to make for this will hold our future lives.
@dminotaur (134)
• Philippines
6 May 10
It would be very unwise if COMELEC didn't do every possible means should those machines fail - it's a total disaster on their end, probably even the end of such Sector (and hopefully, a better one be created) - if not, Heads will roll -- Pun intended -- of the Heads of Comelec, that is.
• Philippines
6 May 10
Its not good idea to have a postponement of elections coz what we gonna do for that date do think that when it set to other day the problems will not occur for that day as what happening today. Let's together trust anybody to have clean elections and set our mind that it will happen. When our mind thinks too negative and the machine will fail its true and not far that it will happen coz everybody thinks that doubts.
• Philippines
6 May 10
Well, it is really alarming... as of the moment, there are so many news with regards to the failure of the machine and we only have 4 days more to go before the election. It is just so sad that the COMELEC has no other plans, let say contingency plan. Postponement of election may mean a new plan for the people in the office. I think, whether, the election will be pushed through or not, there will still be ghosts. Cheating will always happen. That is why, we need to be honest, start from ourselves. Let us just pray that the result of the election will be fine... GO PHILIPPINES!
@jules67 (2788)
• Philippines
5 May 10
As of the latest, majority of the flash cards have been re-calibrated , am not sure if the word is the right term. Hopefully, it gets delivered in time for MOnday's elections. If things don't happen as planned, I am all set for the manual counting of votes. I just hope and pray that everything will be peaceful. I hope and pray that the temperature will not be as hot as we experience for it will compound the problem and people will get irritated easily.
@juggerogre (1653)
• Philippines
5 May 10
I really hope that the election will push through next week. If not they can declare failure of election. I don't want to think about GMA remaining as the president.
@kenites (337)
• Philippines
6 May 10
It will surely fail if this machine will not work as expected. My stand on this is I think this time is not yet the best way to automate the election, It just happens too fast. I think we should have a longer time to test the machine for it's defects or bugs. Just checked softwares that was released in the market, it has always patches release later on to correct some bugs.