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WE Watch is a network of workers, unions, and organizations that aims to provide venue for active workers' participation in the 2010 elections through voter's education, monitoring of electoral fraud and violence, and developing policy recommendations on the use of Automated Election System (AES).

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Election Bulletin

Comelec’s purchase of PCOS machines ‘one big wrong step’ to 2013 polls – watchdog

Post date: Mon, 2012-04-02 17:51

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) took “one big wrong step” towards the 2013 polls when it purchased Smartmatic International Corp.’s counting machines for the country’s elections, according to a workers’ watchdog.

Workers’ Electoral Watch (WE WATCH), a network of workers advocating democratic and transparent polls, said the Comelec failed to draw lessons from the country’s exercise of first automated polls in 2010 when it decided to purchase and reuse the precint count optical scan (PCOS) machines for next year’s elections at a P1.8-billion price tag.

Workers Launch Own Poll Watchdog

MANILA (February 22, 2010) - Labor organizations from all over the country have forged an alliance for clean and honest elections.

Called the Workers' Electoral Watch or WE-Watch, the project is formally launched today in the historic Intramuros in Manila, spearheaded by labor think-tank Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research, with support from the European Union. The said alliance is also working hand-in-hand with the Legal Network for Truthful Elections or LENTE.

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