Murillo

We received notice from AES Watch, a coalition of registered nongovernment organizations, citizens’ poll watchdogs, policy study and professional groups including IT experts and resource persons of the Poll Automation Law (RA 9369), faith-based groups and other poll stakeholders who have been actively working in collective or in individual actions since 2009 to promote transparent, secured and trustworthy automated election system in the Philippines compliant with the Election Modernization Law and industry standards. The notice was “for all individuals, all Filipino citizens to join Honorable Teofisto Guingona Jr., former vice president of the Republic of the Philippines, and members of AES Watch, in the filing of a complaint with the Office of the Ombudsman and hold into account public officers at the Comelec who, in collusion with local and foreign business interests, placed in grave peril the sanctity of the ballot in the Philippines by approving the use of a highly-suspect automated elections system—the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) in the May 10, 2010 national and local elections and May 13, 2013 mid-term elections. This is just part of a series of legal actions aimed at calling public attention to the serious travesty of our election system and violation of the citizens’ right to an election process that truly reflects their sovereign will through accurate, secured and transparent counting of votes.

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