May 15: Like a pro

I was sent by Ma'am Peps to the NAMFREL Press Conference in Mandaluyong on its election results report.

Spotted! I'm seated next to the two reporters in white (the first one is Aries Rufo).
Photo from Namfrel's Facebook Page.

Here's the article I submitted just five minutes after the presscon (yes, the pressure was really on):

How can you guard that which you can't see?

This was the question of election stakeholders during the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) at a press conference in Mandaluyong, Wednesday night. 

NAMFREL sees the rampant PCOS glitches as the culprit for the slow transmission of election returns for the 2013 national and local elections, citing the 30% votes yet to be canvassed 40 hours after the automated elections.

According to NAMFREL, this accounts for 24,082 ERs from various provinces.

During the 2010 elections, 80% of votes were already canvassed 12 hours after the 2010 elections.

Namfrel Chairperson Corazon dela Paz said 'technical issues' plagued different parts of the country, from delayed transmissions of election returns of defective PCOS to problems with physical transmissions of Certificates of Canvass (COC) from provinces, which will be the basis for the official results.

Reports from the election monitoring body reveal that Comelec received only 21 COC from 302 expected official COC.

Speakers said that while the automated elections lessened the conflicts of the local elections, the credibility and transparency of the technology, with faulty voting machines, still hang.