Press Release

8 June 2010

CenPEG seeks disclosure of poll documents

The electoral watchdog and policy study and research group Center for Political Empowerment
in Governance (CenPEG) is seeking the release of at least 22 documents related to the
Automated Election System (AES) prepared and implemented for the May 10, 2010 national
synchronized polls.

CenPEG said “various stakeholders (need) to help find answers to many questions that affect
the credibility of the elections, especially with regards some rather unusual incidences occurring
with the PCOS (precinct count optical scan) machines of the Smartmatic-propelled automated
system.

“An objective study can only be done if pertinent data and information, relevant to the study at
hand, shall be accessible and available to researchers and scholars, so that a no-nonsense body
of knowledge can be developed in the interest of public service and good governance,” CenPEG
added, as it also pledged confidentiality and a copy of the final draft of the study and
recommendations.

On May 21, CenPEG wrote the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee (JCOC) to help it
gain access to needed information on the AES and to form an independent, non-partisan, and
impartial citizens' body to review and assess the conduct of the May 10, 2010 automated
elections, including the processes and procedures undertaken for the May 10 election.

CenPEG and AES Watch, a multisectoral coalition of poll watchdogs are active citizen resource
groups in the JCOC.

The documents CenPEG is asking for are: Systest full complete Report; Source Code Walk
Through Plan; Source Code of the PCOS program; Source Code of the CCS Programs;
File formats of all data files used or produced by the PCOS program; File formats of all
data files used or produced by the CCS program; Public keys used by all the PCOS
computers; Public keys used by all the CCS computers; User manual of the PCOS
program; User manual of the CCS program; Smartmatic-Comelec Contract with the
complete Annexes; Finance and Budget Plan of the AES-Smartmatic; Contract of the
Smartmatic Voters’ Education’ Contract between Smartmatic and the Dominion Voting
Systems; Contract on Transmission and Deployment Plan of the Transmission facilities;
Report on the PCOS Transmission on May 10 and thereafter; Report on the
Customization; Old ballot faces (national and local) matching the faulty CF cards; New
ballot faces (national and local) actually used for the May 10 elections; Report on the
Training of BEIs and Technicians; Inventory of Compact Flash Cards – used in the Final
Testing and Sealing; and the Re-configured CF Cards for May 10.

CenPEG’s request letter was signed by Evi-Ta L. Jimenez, executive director and noted by Dr.
Bienvenido Lumbera, chair of its Board of Directors.