Manila Standard: Averting a Disaster

December 31, 2009

Pacific Strategies and Assessments's special report on the status of the Philippine poll automation project was cited in an editorial news article government and the Muslim rebels.

Source: The Manila Standard

The Commission on Elections was quick to dispel rumors that the May 2010 elections may be marred by chaos since the delivery of counting machines that will be used has been delayed.

Instead, the chief of the poll body’s legal department predicted that the 82,000 machines may be delivered “way ahead of schedule.”

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“A disaster waiting to happen,” with the delay in machine delivery, among other snags, acting as an “explosive ingredient.”

- Pacific Strategies and Assessments

“There are simply too many potential human, procedural and/or technical breakdowns that could lead to a major disruption or most drastically a complete failure of the May 2010 elections,”

- Pacific Strategies and Assessments

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