Philippine poll body delays release of website
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Philippines' Commission on Election (Comelec) has decided to delay the release of the website which will show the poll results over security reasons.
![A voter shows his finger with ink after voting at a polling station in Tarlac province, in northern Philippines May 10, 2010. The Philippine general election voting for the president, parliament and local leaders began at 36,679 polling stations all over the country at 7 a.m. Monday. More than 50 million Filipinos have been registered as voters this year, of whom, 85 percent said they would vote, according to the Election Commission (Comelec). [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20100510/000cf1bdd03f0d51f5e82b.jpg "A voter shows his finger with ink after voting at a polling station in Tarlac province, in northern Philippines May 10, 2010. The Philippine general election voting for the president, parliament and local leaders began at 36,679 polling stations all over the country at 7 a.m. Monday. More than 50 million Filipinos have been registered as voters this year, of whom, 85 percent said they would vote, according to the Election Commission (Comelec). [Xinhua]") |
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A voter shows his finger with ink after voting at a polling station in Tarlac province, in northern Philippines May 10, 2010. The Philippine general election voting for the president, parliament and local leaders began at 36,679 polling stations all over the country at 7 a.m. Monday. More than 50 million Filipinos have been registered as voters this year, of whom, 85 percent said they would vote, according to the Election Commission (Comelec). [Xinhua] |
"We will release (it) a little later to minimize the possibility of hacking. If we give it now, we are sure that people will try to hack it immediately," Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal said.
The website will show the results of the election from all 76, 300 precincts.
The Comelec has already extended the voting hours by one hour to 7 p.m. because of voting delays in some polling precincts.
This is the first automated election in the history of the Philippines. More than 76,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) were installed in all polling stations across the country. Introduction of the modern technique is said to be able to handle 70 percent of the total votes before midnight of the election day and furnish the unofficial results within 48 hours.
