http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190527/machine-glitch-delays-voting-in-nonoys-precinct
TARLAC CITY, Tarlac -- Voting has been delayed at the precinct where Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is supposed to vote Monday after the Precinct Count Optical Machine (PCOS) stopped functioning in the middle of reading a ballot.
Philippines: Violence precedes troubled Philippine vote
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/09/Violence-precedes-troubled-Philippine-vote/UPI-98391273441101/ An explosion in a southern village killed one person and injured three, and five other persons died in election-related incidents in two other provinces, The New York Times reported.
Philippines: The Automated Election System Watch
http://aeswatch.org/...Citizens Election Monitor put up by AES Watch for the purpose of collecting from volunteers and all reports on the progress of the first ever nationwide automated polls in the Philippines.
Philippines: 5 PCOS machines burned in Iloilo; suspects still unknown
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190442/5-pcos-machines-burned-in-iloilo-suspects-still-unknown
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100509-269006/Poll-partisans-destroy-voting-machine-in-Maguindanao
Philippines: 11 out of 7,555 voting machines in Metro found defective
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100509-268989/11-out-of-7555-voting-machines-in-Metro-found-defective
MANILA, Philippines -- Eleven vote scanning and counting machines out of the 7,555 units distributed around Metro Manila were reported to be defective and needed to be replaced after they were tested and sealed on Sunday.
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"The machines automatically shut down and cannot be repaired by the assigned technicians so they will have to be replaced with new machines."
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But apart from the reported 11 machines reported by Dioneda, Supt. Jimmy Tiu, Sta. Mesa Station 8 commander of the Manila Police District (MPD) told the Inquirer that two more PCOS machines turned out to be defective in his area.
UK: Election 2010: Anger of student voters put into the 'slow queue'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1275519/Election-2010-Anger-student-voters-slow-queue.html Officials divided voters into two queues at a polling station in Nick Clegg's Sheffield Hallam constituency a "slow' one for students, and a "fast-track' for long-term residents.
UK: Voters turned away from polls should go to court, says Liberty
http://www.legalnewscentral.co.uk/2010/05/07/voters-turned-away-from-polls-should-go-to-court-says-liberty/
UK: E-voting call after election night fiasco
Electronic ballot could avoid queues
http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/7/e-voting-call-after-election-night-fiasco/#comment_anchor
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