Watchdog seeks creation of body to look into conduct of May polls - GMA news.tv

Pablo Manalastas, an information and technology expert and University of the Philippines professor, explained how wrongly-configured compact flash cards — which store instructions on how poll machines read ballots and transmit results —could lead to erroneous reading and counting of votes.

Several PCOS machines malfunctioned when they were tested the week before the elections.

This prompted the Commission on Elections to recall the CF cards, because the data they contained did not match Comelec’s new ballot design where the candidates’ names were listed horizontally, instead of vertically.

Manalstas explained that Smartmatic-TIM (Total Information Management) failed to reconfigure the CF cards when the Comelec changed the ballot design.

From: http://ping.fm/ANhE7