NAMFREL is Bantay ng Bayan in the May 2010 Elections

Returns to the original role it performed in

1983 when it was first engaged in the Philippine election process

Reports to the Filipino people its observations, findings, and recommendations of the critical aspects of the election process

Basic Principles of the BnB

UDHR Article 21 - Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives

working for free, fair, clean, and credible elections

Looks at critical aspects of the election process

Looks at the performance of the key players in the elections

• ICCPR Article 25 - Every citizen shall have the right to vote and to be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors.

Critical Aspects of the Election

• Legal Framework: Election Law, General Instructions and Resolutions

• Candidates and Parties’ Registration• Voters List• Automated Election System• Campaigning• Election Day• Counting, Transmission and Canvassing• Proclamation• Protests

Players in the Elections• COMELEC

- Commission- Board of Election Inspectors- Board of Canvassers

• Candidates• Political Parties• Police and Military• Smartmatic (Technology Supplier)• PPCRV (Citizens’ Arm)• Media• Local and Foreign Election Monitors

- TF 2010 - Bantay Eleksyon (47 NGO’s) - AESWatch- LENTE - We Watch - Kontra Daya

Facts about the May 2010 Elections50,723,734 Registered Voters (as of Jan. 15, 2010)76,340 Clustered Precincts37,422 Voting Centers82,200 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) Machines

-6,729 Backup PCOS MachinesP 7.2 B Cost of Automation (Contract Price) National Positions: 1 President, 1 Vice President , 12 Senators, 230 District

Representatives, 57 Party List Representatives

Local Positions: 80 Governors, 80 Vice Governors, 137 City Mayors, 137 City Vice Mayors, 1,497 Municipal Mayors, 1,497 Municipal Vice Mayors, and Sanggunians Members at Province, City and Municipal levels

Why BnB?

• Does not need accreditation from the COMELEC

• Will run with or w/o accreditation by COMELEC of Random Manual Audit (RMA)

• Engages its nationwide volunteers in the entire election process

• Monitoring Instruments and process of evaluation use international standards of free and fair elections (____)

The BnB Protocol (One Cycle)

Report to the People^

Consolidation and Summary of Provincial reports at the National NAMFREL + Analysis of National Events

^Consolidation and Summary of Municipal reports in 80

Provinces and NCR^

Data Gathering in 1,497 Municipalities and 137 cities ( 1,634 LGUs) using one common instrument

BnB Reporting PeriodNat’l NAMFREL Reports to the Nation

Submission by Provinces

Pre-Election 1 Feb. 28

Pre –Election 2 March 15 March 12

Pre-Election 3 March 31 March 28

Pre-Election 4 April 15 April 12

Pre-Election 5 April 30 April 27

Pre-Election 6 May 8 May 5

Election Day 1 12 NN May 10 2 PM May 10

Election Day 2 9 PM May 10 11 PM May 10

Post Election Day

May 13 May 12

Final Report May 31 May 25

Responsibility Centers1. Chairman and Secretary General presenting the report to the public 2. National Council acting as Oversight Committee to review and approve BB Reports

before these are released3. Three Teams at NAMFREL National

• Operations 1• Operations 2• Research of National Situation

4. Provincial Chairperson mobilizing BB observers (recruitment and performance monitoring), organizing data, and supervising submission at the appointed time ; releases reports at the provincial level where appropriate

5. Provincial BB Teams (2-4 people) in each province consolidating data and writing reports

6. (Municipal and City Chairpersons mobilizing BB Ground Observers – where applicable)7. Local Observers – ground Bantay ng Bayan securing data.

Summary of Role & Task May 2010

• With an accreditation – Random Manual Audit (Pagsuri ng Bayan)

• With or without an accreditation – Parallel Count (Bilang ng Bayan)

• With or without an accreditation – monitoring & observation (Bantay ng Bayan)