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                    [Title] => Comelec to use pirated software in 2013 polls
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This could well be one of the biggest software piracies ever in the world — P9 billion for 82,000 unlicensed balloting machines, to be used by 55 million voters in 250,000 polling precincts in 7,107 islands.

                    [DatePublished] => 2012-12-26 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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                    [Title] => Let's play naive, any takers?
                    [Summary] => Speaking of corruption, Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo once cited P200 billion of public funds lost annually. Being poor in math, I fail to make out the magnitude of such loss. Besides, being used to counting centavos and a few pesos only, seldom in thousands, not in millions, and never in billions, I couldn't follow Marcelo's tracks.


And so, the P20 billion or so for Congress pork barrel annually, or election wastrels of some billions in road users tax funds, motor registration fees, and agricultural funds in the last elections, were just some paltry peanuts to this simple dude.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-06-21 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr.
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Comelec to use pirated software in 2013 polls

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | December 26, 2012 - 12:00am

This could well be one of the biggest software piracies ever in the world — P9 billion for 82,000 unlicensed balloting machines, to be used by 55 million voters in 250,000 polling precincts in 7,107 islan...

Opinion

Let's play naive, any takers?

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | June 21, 2005 - 12:00am

Speaking of corruption, Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo once cited P200 billion of public funds lost annually. Being poor in math, I fail to make out the magnitude of such loss. Besides, being used to counting centavos...

Freeman Opinion