This post is continuously updated. Please refresh this page every once in a while to check for recent updates.

Edit: May 14, 2010 @ 1900H:  I will no longer update this page, here’s why.

To my fellow Calambenos looking for the latest results for Laguna and Calamba City, please scroll down way below this page for the latest partial unofficial result.

If you prefer to do your own tally, click here to get precinct-level results from the COMELEC website.

Since COMELEC’s website’s results are currently only viewable by precinct level (no municipal level tally yet), I will be publishing data from GMANews.tv which is a reflection of the exact results received by PPCRV’s server direct from 76,000+ precincts all over the country.

If you’re looking for COMELEC’s Partial Official Tally, please scroll down below.

GMA-7′s  Partial Unofficial Tally as of 2010-05-13 4:27PM 89.50% of ERs

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PPCRV’s Partial Unofficial Tally as of 2010-05-13 11:09AM 89.41% of ERs

Search This Heart: A Voter’s Prayer

by: RJ Marmol

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As we look back on our troubled past and look ahead to the future laid before us, I, along with 50 million voters,

come before You Lord and pray that You search this heart.

Of feelings of doubt, cynicism and pessimism — search this heart.

Of feelings of distrust, dissent and hostility — search this heart.

As we cast our votes — the only one we have — plant a seed of hope and confidence,

That after doing all that is humanly possible to reclaim our pride and banish our tainted reputation

Through honest, peaceful and credible  elections –

Help us rest in the comfort that you will not forsake us.

Search this heart, oh Lord, and cast away ill-feelings for all candidates and their supporters.

Search this heart and remove regrets over yesterday’s mistakes, misjudgements and misdeeds that held us from believing that change is ever possible in this country.

Search this heart and show us the path — not of least resistance, but of least faults.

We may have heard all that we can from our candidates. We have debated day and night, for and against them.

They have campaigned, we have listened. But there is one vote — one voice, one debate —

one campaign that we are yet to listen to — Yours.

So today, as we anticipate the day we have been waiting for in six years,

We pray that You open our hearts and search it.

Speak to us. We are ready to listen.

You have said that all authority comes from You.

In Paul’s epistle to the Romans 13:1-7

1 Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because there is no authority except from God and so whatever authorities exist have been appointed by God.
2 So anyone who disobeys an authority is rebelling against God’s ordinance; and rebels must expect to receive the condemnation they deserve.
3 Magistrates bring fear not to those who do good, but to those who do evil. So if you want to live with no fear of authority, live honestly and you will have its approval;
4 it is there to serve God for you and for your good. But if you do wrong, then you may well be afraid; because it is not for nothing that the symbol of authority is the sword: it is there to serve God, too, as his avenger, to bring retribution to wrongdoers.
5 You must be obedient, therefore, not only because of this retribution, but also for conscience’s sake.
6 And this is why you should pay taxes, too, because the authorities are all serving God as his agents, even while they are busily occupied with that particular task.
7 Pay to each one what is due to each: taxes to the one to whom tax is due, tolls to the one to whom tolls are due, respect to the one to whom respect is due, honour to the one to whom honour is due.

Direct our hearts and minds to the right choice, and give us the strength and conviction to vote according to our conscience –

According to Your will.

Keep us in your loving embrace and guidance. Help us realize that our vote is as sacred as our love for this country –

That which You have blessed abundantly, and whose people You loved immensely —

That You sent Your Only Begotten Son to die for.

Search this voter’s heart, oh Lord –

For Your prodigal son of a nation has returned — remorseful and with an open contrite heart –

Not to ask for a feast, but for a genuine lasting peace – on election day, and everyday.

If we want to ensure credible election results, we must guard the printing and safekeeping of the first 8 copies of ERs (election returns) at the (clustered) precinct level prior to hooking-up the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machine online.

This was the suggestion made by former COMELEC Chairman Christian Monsod this morning when asked about how we can generate confidence on this coming Monday’s first automated national and local elections.

Former COMELEC Chairman Christian Monsod (Image from: http://www.mbc.com.ph)

At the closing hour of election day, at about 6pm, the PCOS will automatically refuse accepting ballots, finalize the tally results and print 30 copies of ERs.

The first 8 physical copies of election returns (along with the access to servers) will go to the following:

1. COMELEC
2. Congress
3. PPCRV (Citizen’s Arm)
4. Dominant Majority (Lakas-Kampi-CMD)
5. Dominant Minority (since the NP-NPC coalition has been invalidated, LP becomes the dominant minority)
6. Provincial Board of Canvassers
7. Municipal Board of Canvassers
8. KBP

Monsod says that following the assurance that the ‘source code’ (software program) is clean and that the copy of the program stored in a Bangko Sentral safety deposit box is the exact same program stored/used by the PCOS (which can be verified by a ‘hash test’ to be done by COMELEC before the elections), the immediate printing of ‘untainted’ clustered precinct-level results and securing it will be our assurance that should an automated ‘Garci’ happen from municipal level upwards, we will be confident that a manual count verification would be reliable.

He adds that once data is transmitted, it may be prone to ‘manipulation’ and depending on the safeguards installed, even a third party may hack into it and alter the results through digital ‘padding and shaving’ (aka ‘dagdag-bawas’).

Why data must go through a Smartmatic ‘central hub’ must also be clarified. Monsod thinks the Supreme Court, in addition to compelling the COMELEC to release their overall election preparations including but not limited to contingency plans and RMA guidelines, must also ask the COMELEC to justify whether it is indeed necessary for a third-party like Smartmatic to have access to the data transmission and why data can’t go straight to COMELEC servers.

Citing a recent testing where data results were in conflict with manual count, Smartmatic was said to have resolved the issue by accessing the PCOS remotely. This now raises the question: If remote correction/fixing can be done, can this mean remote alteration of results be done as well?

In the end, Monsod says that given the recent hiccups encountered in PCOS testing, a successful automated election is still possible if field implementation is done properly. The success of our first attempt at automation now rests in the teachers and staff who will man the polling place. If this election becomes successful, we owe it to these heroes who risk even their very lives in this democratic exercise.