2023

• A Broad Perspective on the Current Controversy about Election Return Transmissions In Particular and on Our Voting Automation Issues In General

2022

• Is there prospect for the hybrid election system (HES)?
• Rightsizing and reengineering bureaucracy
• The May 2022 Elections and the Marcos Restoration: Looking Back and Beyond
• Poll automation a sinking ship; time to use a hybrid system
• MOMENT OF TRUTH
  Voters go to the polls on May 9
• Disqualification cases roil Marcos camp; biggest Left political bloc backs Robredo-Pangilinan team
• A Race for Power of Political Dynasties

2021

• On proclaiming a winning candidate
• Clash of political dynasties Accents May 2022 elections
• We need to renew 'new politics' for the May 2022 polls
• Major Presidential Bets Formalize Candidacies but Last-Minute Surprises still Possible till Mid-November
• The formidable force to contend with in 2022 elections
• The Ideal OQC Operations for The 2022 elections
• RACE FOR THE 2022 PRESIDENCY GAINS MOMENTUM
• A President’s Death, an ICC Call, and Realignments ahead of the 2022 Elections: A Gathering Storm?
• Simplify transmission of election results for transparent 2022 elections
• Old ways must go in May 2022 polls
• Jostling for the presidency amid the pandemic and flaws in the election system
• Clean voters’ database: A challenge to a transparent 2022 elections
• The Pulse Asia Survey on Presidential Bets for the 2022 Elections: An Analysis of Results and Political Implications

2020

• Comelec’s PCOS-OMR system rejects public counting, enhances wholesale cheating
• When history repeats itself
• Fraud: Its butterfly effect
• Hybrid election system in 2022: How do we proceed?
• DocPH, a month after
• Democracy at stake: The need for poll system standards and certification

2019

• What legal basis are you referring to, Comelec?
• JUNK Smartmatic! AES Watch renews call for public counting with electronic transmission
• 2019 elections assessment: Worst!
• As voters troop to polls on May 13, critical questions remain unsolved
• Time to change the automated election law
• The 2019 May Elections and its Implications on the Duterte Administration
• Time to change the Automated Election Law

2018

• REFORMING THE POLL BODY
• PART 17 > 2019 elections: ‘Laway’ of Venezuelans or ‘talino’ of Filipinos
• PART 16 > 2019 elections: ‘Laway’ of Venezuelans or ‘talino’ of Filipinos
• Compliance Theory: A Case Study Approach in Understanding Organizational Commitment
• The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine

2017

• Smartmatic and the Venezuela Electoral Fraud
• Venezuela's Maduro Accuses Smartmatic of Caving to US Pressure
• The judicious spending of taxpayers’ money: Does it matter?
• ‘Narco politics’ cannot be invoked to replace the people’s right to vote
• COMELeak: Telltale sign of poor governance (Part 3)

2016

• On the practicability of voting machine receipts
• Implications of a court ruling that voting receipts are the VVPAT
• VIDEO of AES Watch's TAPAT demo & mock election July 2015 at Pamantasan ng Lungson ng Maynila
• FEARLESS FORECAST (EPISODE II): Comelec will not comply with e-Commerce Law in 2016 elections
• Fearless forecast: Comelec’s non-compliance with the AES law in 2016 (last of 2 parts)
• Fearless forecast: Comelec will not comply with the AES law in 2016

2015

• Cast of Clans: From Aguinaldo to Aquino, dynasties rule
• The True Cost of a Political Campaign
• Management decisions: Based on RA 9369 or purely Comelec’s?
• MONEY AND PCOS WILL CONTROL THE 2016 ELECTIONS
• END ELECTION IMPUNITY, DEFEND PEOPLE’S RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE!
• CenPEG’s 2nd roundtable with media showcases TAPAT
• Comelec ‘parallel biddings’ questioned before high court
• CenPEG holds 1st roundtable with media on presidential poll results
• Filipino IT can do it!
• FIT4E: The only transparent solution
• New Comelec chair says he’s open to other election technologies
• SC ruling on AES Watch Pabillo and IBP vs Comelec, Smartmatic-TIM
• Comelec must explain P3.2B unliquidated cash advances
• Congress oversight body hears alternative poll automation system
• Afghanistan, Syria and Bahrain the worst elections in 2014
• VOTING TECHNOLOGY: IS IT SECURE YET?
• High Court set to hear oral arguments on suits filed vs Comelec, Smartmatic
• CONGRESS ASKED TO HOLD DEMO ON PCOS HACKING
• 25 Bishops ask poll body to stop midnight deal with Smartmatic
• 2 poll watch coalitions stage rally vs Comelec-Smartmatic midnight deal
• AES Watch questions Comelec-Smartmatic midnight deal

2014

• Remittance with Representation: The right to vote of overseas Filipinos
• How to rig an automated election in the Philippines
• Deliberate ignorance on automated polls
• A manual recount in Nueva Ecija
• Our democracy is subverted by Comelec
• Poll advisory council bats for re-using PCOS machines in 2016
• AES Watch: Secret Voting, Public Counting
• CenPEG proposes Partylist seat allocation system to House committee
• Heated exchange forces Senate election agenda to take back seat
• How the polls automation law altered and impaired the election process
• Felix D. Carao, Jr: A ‘great loss,’ ‘lawyer with dignity’
• The risks of flawed and failed elections worldwide
• Is Comelec finally junking Smartmatic?

2013

• Comelec still printing ballots for May 13 elections?
• Comelec officials are no show at Writ hearing
• 'It Runs In The Family' The Making Of Political Dynasties In The Philippines
• Dynasties tighten grip on Philippines
• AES Watch conveners ask SC for Writ of Habeas Data vs Comelec
• Roller-coaster poll automation
• AES Watch leaders sue old Comelec before Ombusman
• Elections: Instrument of political control
• Are you spying on us? AES Watch asks Brillantes
• AES Watch calls for Brillantes resignation
• 2013 MID-TERM AUTOMATED ELECTIONS: FROM BAD TO WORSE - Comelec is now anointer of presumed winners
• AES Watch citizens' poll monitoring center launched
• IT experts: 'Is Comelec fooling us again?' AES Watch demands full disclosure of deal
• Citizens against an imperious Comelec
• 34 concerned citizens, voters, and taxpayers file suit before the UN Human Rights Committee
• CenPEG: Comelec's non-compliance of automation law poses legal and credibility questions on coming elections
• Comelec sued for P490M bidding scam
• Two books on automated elections launched
• High Court unmasks self as pro-oligarch in latest Party-list ruling
• It's now definite: Mid-term elections to proceed without source code review
• Prepare for contingency, Kontra Daya tells Comelec
• On the brink of a precipice
• Use facts not gutter language, Brillantes told
• AES Watch gives failing rate to Comelec's poll preparations
• COMELEC MUST STOP COMMITTING THE SAME MISTAKES; VOTERS' RIGHTS ARE AT STAKE
• AES Watch's STAR Card Rating for Comelec's May 2013 Automated Election Preparations: FAILURE
• Are we ready for 2nd automated polls?
• Dynastic Hubris
• AES Watch to Comelec: Prove poll automation is ready in May 2013
• Bishops fear wholesale cheating with voting system flaws
• Bishops take Comelec to task

2012

• AES Watch to Congress: Move for new poll technology provider
• Probe unconscionable prices, Ombudsman and CoA asked
• The U.S. presidential election - through the CenPEG lens
• Roundtable discussion vs political dynasties held
• AES Watch asks anew Congress JCOC to convene
• Smartmatic suit may doom 2013 elections – AES Watch
• Smartmatic International sues Dominion
• EXPOSED: Wrong PCOS count to hound 2013 polls!
• Smartmatic International Sues Dominion Voting Systems for Licensing Breach and Improper Business Practices
• Anything less is a disservice to the Filipino people
• House suffrage committee hosts tech provider's marketing demo
• GUINGONA LEADS PETITION FOR TRO vs COMELEC, SMARTMATIC
• AES Watch Petition for TRO
• Comelec' 'option to purchase' not binding, procurement board says
• Were 13M voters partly disenfranchised in the 2010 automated elections?
  DEFECTS AND VULNERABILITIES OF THE SMARTMATIC 2010 AES
• Election watchdog to Comelec: Smartmatic-TIM is no longer an option
• Political party system act OK'd on first reading
• OMR technology for 2013 proposed by Comelec advisory council
• Election advocates, poll officials gear for 2013 polls

2011

• New Court Filing Reveals How the 2004 Ohio Presidential Election Was Hacked
• National search for election technology backed by Comelec
• SEARCH FOR FILIPINO ELECTION TECH LAUNCHED
• Promote Filipino IT (FIT) for a New Election Technology (PDF)
• Post Election Report on the Use of the Automated Election System (AES) in the 2010 National and Local Elections (PDF)
• AES Watchers stage rally in front of Comelec
• Waiting in vain?
• CenPEG Reply to Philippine Star Columnists
• NEVER AGAIN TO SMARTMATIC's PCOS MACHINES (PDF)
• The insidious Smartmatic lobby
• Comelec-Smartmatic conspiracy?
• Two more statements against the use of Smartmatic PCOS machines in the ARMM polls
  • Junk PCOS! Case of Antipolo PCOS still unresolved(PDF)
  • Follow the law!(PDF)
• Hold ARMM elections this year; but don't use the seriously and inherently-flawed Smartmatic PCOS
• Never again to Smartmatic's PCOS machines
• Comelec-Smartmatic conspiracy?
• Defend the ballot against the miscounting of votes by the Smartmatic-PCOS machines

2010

• To solve Party-list seat allocation, ask IT students
• AES WATCH Convener is next UP President
• CenPEG bares bugs and errors in May 10 election program
• What is Comelec Hiding? Release vital election documents NOW! (PDF)
• Philippines votes in the shadow of gunmen
• TI-Philippines chair cites Comelec's lack of transparency
• RELEASE VITAL DOCUMENTS, GROUPS ASK COMELEC
• THE CenPEG REPORT ON THE MAY 10, 2010 AUTOMATED ELECTIONS(PDF)
• Guingona, CenPEG ask Comelec to comply with SC ruling(PDF)
• COMELEC LOSES IN SOURCE CODE CASE WITH SUPREME COURT
  High Court ruling hailed as a victory for public information access, transparent election
• 17 REASONS WHY THE COMELEC MUST RELEASE VITAL PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
• The Unseen, Unheard and Forgotten: The Biliran Manobos in the May 2010 Elections
• An untransparent election
• Erroneous COCs in 57 provinces blamed on Smartmatic’s counting system
• Poll officials must answer security issues - CenPEG
• A PROPORTIONALITY ANALYSIS OF THE COOP-NATCCO SEAT ALLOCATION FORMULA(PDF)
• Foreign Observers Challenge Election Legitimacy
• The May 10 Elections: Questions, Answers
• Problem of the CF Cards
• Citizens’ watchdogs: Guard votes, ensure peaceful power transition
• Joint Concern and Call on the May 10 automated elections
• Organized vigilance needed to ensure a peaceful power transition(PDF)
• CenPEG kicks off 60-day Countdown to E-day
• CenPEG Countdown to E-day Photo Gallery
• Poll body asked to reply to CenPEG’s “30 vulnerabilities of the AES”
• Comelec washes hands off source code review issue(PDF)
• CenPEG briefs major TV network
• Political parties, citizens’ watchdogs junk Comelec’s source code ‘walkthrough’(PDF)
• Joint Statement of Political Parties and Citizens’ Groups on Comelec’s ‘Source Code Review’ (PDF)
• What is a Proper Source Code Review?
• Source Code Review According to COMELEC: A Commentary
• CenPEG’s voters’ education, poll watch training stepped up as election nears
• Center trains church-based poll watchers in island of Chocolate Hills
• Senators alarmed over imminent widespread voters’ disenfranchisement
• Mock polls portend of worse to come on May 10
• AES Watch launched
• AES Watch Executive Summary / Comelec’s poll automation is endangered
• AES Watch brochure
• Comelec is not ready for AES; prepare contingency plan NOW!
• STAR SCORECARD (System Trustworthiness, Accountability & Readiness)
• Most Filipinos have little knowledge of automated election - survey