No NAMFREL quick count for 2010 Elections!

The 2010 Election will be automated next year because of these developments NAMFREL decided to forego next years election quick count.



But instead they will still conduct a parallel tally for audit purposes, NAMFREL will deal mostly with technical matters in the election system such as the bidding process, training of volunteers for the automated polls and auditing of the results.


Under the law, one copy of the election returns (ER) will have to be provided to the accredited citizen’s arm. Namfrel-PPCRV will file this month for accreditation as citizen’s arm in the May 2010 polls.

In next years automated election, where machines perform the counting and tallying of votes and the results readily received by Comelec, a quick count operation will no longer be necessary.

But Namfrel will still conduct its own parallel count using its ER copies, as a post-validation process.

This is necessary to uncover discrepancies, if any, in the results of the local and national elections.

The ER copies of Namfrel have proven to be crucial in the last-minute attempts to rig the results, especially in local races.