By the way, a litle update on the technical side of HALAL: Based on our experiences with concerns about costs, we now think less volunteers than we originally expected will be enthusiastic about texting the results to us, at their own expense. Our minimum cost estimate is around P30 in all: P10 to download the list of candidates/report template, P10 for at least 1 trial run, P10 for the actual report). We have added a bulk report facility (emailing an attached spreadsheet containing many results) to the system. And we have made electronic reports optional. As long as the printed report forms are filled in and submitted by the volunteers. Where no electronic reports come in, we will do the data entry at the National Secretariat. However we still expect as much volume for texts from the public to check the results in their precinct, which will only cost P2.50 (and another P2.50 if they want to confirm the report they got).
This adjustment had the happy consequence of reducing the expected spike 24-48 hrs after the elections, which had been our greatest worry. Public inquiries will be much more spread out and can be easily handled by our system. The COMELEC has not yet approved (or disapproved) our petition for accreditation. The convenors have decided to go ahead, with or without accreditation. The delay however makes it harder to get volunteers. We have also decided to publicly urge other pollwatching groups who officially receive ERs (like NAMFREL and the political parties) to make available to the public the electronic versions of their copies. This is the only way the public itself will be able to audit their tallies. Regards to all, Obet PS. I hope PLUG will decide to sign the NoCHEATS covenant and send a rep at the Apr. 17 launching. On Saturday 14 April 2007 2:26 pm, you wrote: > Sorry, I was reserving it for the new servers we need to set up, which > haven't come in yet. Didn't want to make changes with the current server > anymore... > > Regards and thanks again, > > Obet _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
