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[Title] => MegaPacific offers to sell ACMs for 07 polls
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With the use of the controversial automated counting machines definitely ruled out, the MegaPacific consortium is now offering to provide a similar technology for the coming 2007 midterm elections.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Education and Information Division director James Jimenez said MegaPacific eSolutions was among five firms that presented its technology.
They were presented before the advisory council that was tasked to assess which machines could be used in next years polls.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097338
[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
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[Title] => Palace insists civil case against MegaPacific stands despite SC order
[Summary] =>
Malacañang said yesterday its civil case against MegaPacific, the firm that entered into the voided poll automation contract with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), still stands.
Solicitor General Antonio Nachura said the governments effort to recover P1.3 billion paid to MegaPacific is a separate case from the Supreme Courts (SC) order to Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez to investigate any criminal liability of the Comelec officials in approving the contract.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-03 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Paolo Romero
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[ArticleID] => 363422
[Title] => ACM critics linked to losing bidders
[Summary] =>
Two staunch critics of the purchase by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of nearly 2,000 automated counting machines (ACMs) from the MegaPacific Consortium had ties to the company that lost in the bidding for the machines, a lawyer for the consortium said yesterday.
Lawyer Estrella Elamparo, who represents MegaPacific, took aim at former Comelec chairman Christian Monsod and Augusto Lagman, president of the Information Technology Foundation of the Philippines, which questioned the Comelecs awarding of the contract to MegaPacific in 2003.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-17 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1735838
[AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta
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[ArticleID] => 345308
[Title] => Borra laments being scapegoat in MegaPacific case
[Summary] => Commission on Elections Commissioner Resureccion Borra claims he was a "victim of circumstance" and believes he is being "singled out" for impeachment over alleged anomalies in the Comelecs 2003 purchase of ballot counting machines.
Breaking his silence yesterday on the Office of the Ombudsmans findings against him, Borra said the Comelecs contract with the machines supplier, MegaPacific eSolutions Inc., was a collegial bodys decision.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-04 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1371238
[AuthorName] => James Mananghaya
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[ArticleID] => 344968
[Title] => Palace hopes for early Borra case resolution
[Summary] => Malacañang is hoping for a speedy resolution to the poll automation anomaly case involving election commissioner Resurreccion Borra and five other Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1805432
[AuthorName] => Paolo Romero
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[ArticleID] => 344786
[Title] => Borra, five other Comelec execs liable in Mega deal
[Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman recommended yesterday the impeachment of a ranking official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for alleged anomalies in the awarding of a contract to a private company in line with governments efforts to modernize the countrys antiquated electoral system.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1097368
[AuthorName] => Mike Frialde
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[ArticleID] => 204043
[Title] => Can Comelec counting machines really count?
[Summary] => Benjamin Abalos is a cautious chief of the Commission on Elections. When he couldnt get at once the needed P1 billion to prepare for next years absentee voting, he said hell just drop it. He got congressmen and senators so scared of a backlash from seven million overseas workers that they gave him the money in a flash. Before the recent bidding for poll automation, he told prospective suppliers he wants only the best at the least cost. "There will be no experimenting," he warned, "Comelec cannot risk a revolution because of a wrong choice."
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-28 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134276
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[AuthorID] => 1805283
[AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => Half-baked automation: Recipe for poll disaster?
[Summary] => THE FIRST NO-EL?: Is the Commission on Elections helping, perhaps unwittingly, to lay the basis for NoEl (No Election), or at least to set the stage for a failure of election in 2004?
The Comelec has confessed its inability, mainly for lack of funds, to carry out the mandate for it to manage starting in 2004 the absentee voting by millions of eligible Filipinos residing abroad.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-27 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136322
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804858
[AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
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MEGAPACIFIC
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[Title] => MegaPacific offers to sell ACMs for 07 polls
[Summary] =>
With the use of the controversial automated counting machines definitely ruled out, the MegaPacific consortium is now offering to provide a similar technology for the coming 2007 midterm elections.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Education and Information Division director James Jimenez said MegaPacific eSolutions was among five firms that presented its technology.
They were presented before the advisory council that was tasked to assess which machines could be used in next years polls.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-19 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097338
[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
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[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 366793
[Title] => Palace insists civil case against MegaPacific stands despite SC order
[Summary] =>
Malacañang said yesterday its civil case against MegaPacific, the firm that entered into the voided poll automation contract with the Commission on Elections (Comelec), still stands.
Solicitor General Antonio Nachura said the governments effort to recover P1.3 billion paid to MegaPacific is a separate case from the Supreme Courts (SC) order to Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez to investigate any criminal liability of the Comelec officials in approving the contract.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-03 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805432
[AuthorName] => Paolo Romero
[SectionName] => Headlines
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[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 363422
[Title] => ACM critics linked to losing bidders
[Summary] =>
Two staunch critics of the purchase by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of nearly 2,000 automated counting machines (ACMs) from the MegaPacific Consortium had ties to the company that lost in the bidding for the machines, a lawyer for the consortium said yesterday.
Lawyer Estrella Elamparo, who represents MegaPacific, took aim at former Comelec chairman Christian Monsod and Augusto Lagman, president of the Information Technology Foundation of the Philippines, which questioned the Comelecs awarding of the contract to MegaPacific in 2003.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-17 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1735838
[AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 345308
[Title] => Borra laments being scapegoat in MegaPacific case
[Summary] => Commission on Elections Commissioner Resureccion Borra claims he was a "victim of circumstance" and believes he is being "singled out" for impeachment over alleged anomalies in the Comelecs 2003 purchase of ballot counting machines.
Breaking his silence yesterday on the Office of the Ombudsmans findings against him, Borra said the Comelecs contract with the machines supplier, MegaPacific eSolutions Inc., was a collegial bodys decision.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-04 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1371238
[AuthorName] => James Mananghaya
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 344968
[Title] => Palace hopes for early Borra case resolution
[Summary] => Malacañang is hoping for a speedy resolution to the poll automation anomaly case involving election commissioner Resurreccion Borra and five other Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805432
[AuthorName] => Paolo Romero
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 344786
[Title] => Borra, five other Comelec execs liable in Mega deal
[Summary] => The Office of the Ombudsman recommended yesterday the impeachment of a ranking official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for alleged anomalies in the awarding of a contract to a private company in line with governments efforts to modernize the countrys antiquated electoral system.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097368
[AuthorName] => Mike Frialde
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] =>
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[ArticleID] => 204043
[Title] => Can Comelec counting machines really count?
[Summary] => Benjamin Abalos is a cautious chief of the Commission on Elections. When he couldnt get at once the needed P1 billion to prepare for next years absentee voting, he said hell just drop it. He got congressmen and senators so scared of a backlash from seven million overseas workers that they gave him the money in a flash. Before the recent bidding for poll automation, he told prospective suppliers he wants only the best at the least cost. "There will be no experimenting," he warned, "Comelec cannot risk a revolution because of a wrong choice."
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-28 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134276
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1805283
[AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
[URL] =>
)
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[ArticleID] => 203900
[Title] => Half-baked automation: Recipe for poll disaster?
[Summary] => THE FIRST NO-EL?: Is the Commission on Elections helping, perhaps unwittingly, to lay the basis for NoEl (No Election), or at least to set the stage for a failure of election in 2004?
The Comelec has confessed its inability, mainly for lack of funds, to carry out the mandate for it to manage starting in 2004 the absentee voting by millions of eligible Filipinos residing abroad.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-27 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 136322
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1804858
[AuthorName] => Federico D. Pascual Jr.
[SectionName] => Opinion
[SectionUrl] => opinion
[URL] =>
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