National Election Vigil over ERsAgainst Cheating (NEVER AGAIN)

initiated (but not controlled) byHalalang Marangal (HALAL)

Everyone is welcome!

Objectives of NEVER AGAIN

Put all Election Returns online (on the Web)

Convince millions to hold vigil over polling centers and send reports by text, online

Distinguish between “good” and “ghost” ERs

Gather at least 76,340 volunteers needed to do online work, the more the better

Conduct a public tally of election results

Election Returns on the Web

30 Election Returns (ERs) will be printed

1 will be posted on the precinct itself

Convince all ER holders to put the ER contents on the Web (photographed, or after dataentry)

Always use unique PCOS identifier

On the Web means: on a public website, blog, social networking site (Facebook, Multiply, etc) and other publicly-accessible Web-indexed site

Vigil: hundreds of thousands needed

Watch over the polling center and precinct you are voting in

Be alert for any presence of armed goons and other indications of cheating

Go around the polling center and list down the IDs of all machines where voting occurred

Send reports to Web

EACH OF THE 76,340 MACHINES SHOULD BE COVERED BY THE VIGIL

“Good” and “ghost” ERs

Good ER Empty ballot box

before voting opens

Votes properly zeroed before voting starts

Voting occurred with no intimidation

Clean and honest

Ghost ER Ballots in the b.box before

voting opens

Voting machine not zeroed

Armed goons impose their will on voters

Integrity of the vote is compromised

Missing / unaccounted for

76,340 volunteers for online work

Online watch for one voting machine (PCOS)

Set up alert, search regularly, collect all reports concerned their assigned machine.

Post collected report on the Web, assess reports, and make judgment if PCOS/ER is “good” or “ghost”

Conduct a public tally

Download ER data from Comelec, PPCRV, NAMFREL, HALAL, media, etc.

Use a spreadsheet program

Exclude the ERs from machines you are convinced have become “ghosts”

Consolidate totals in the remaining ERs

Compare your results with others

Compare your results with COMELEC results

Ideas for NEVER AGAIN activists

Form yourselves into affinity groups

Help each other

Avoid, if possible, sites that want to centralize data, centralized portals, and other gatekeepers

Put everything online, keyed to the PCOS ID

Rely on the Wiki principle: the good will outnumber the bad

ON MAY 9-10:

HAPPYGHOST-BUSTING!