I heard the news on radio yesterday about this programming glitch on the Comelec’s Registration System. A lot of registrants have a birthday of Jan 1, 1901! What happened? How?

One of the representatives from the comelec says that it happened because some registrants did not input their date of birth thus the system picks up the default year. How sad it is to hear such flaw!

Every programmer in the Philippines and around the world is now laughing at those people making the system. I wonder what happened to the project manager or the programmer who was in-charge of the registration.

This is a very important matter in terms of gauging the capability of the developer to deliver a good system and the big question is how come it happened? For sure everybody will say it is a gross negligence on the part of the developer. Now that this is happening, they should go back to their drawing board and check all functions of the election system.

Good thing about this error is that it is not really vital to the election per se. Nonetheless, the government will still have to call all these people having wrong birthday and modify the information. It will take time, money and other resources.

I still can not comprehend such a negligence will occur.

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