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OPERATION QUICK COUNT (OQC)
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NAMFREL stands for the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections. It was formally organized in October 1983 by a group of civic, professional, religious, and community leaders. Its roots can be traced to the establishment of the Operations Registration Committee in 1957. The Citizens National Electoral Assembly (CNEA), organized in the 1960s and 1970s by then COMELEC chairman Jaime Ferrer, was also the precursor of NAMFREL.
Because of its commitment to the restoration and strengthening of democratic institutions and processes, particularly the electoral process, NAMFREL received national and international acclaims – including several nominations to the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize from notable organizations such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Human Rights Law Group, both based in Washington, D.C.
Despite being engaged in political activities, NAMFREL maintains its non-partisan position, focusing on the protection of the electoral process and not the advancement of a particular party or candidate. Its operations are supported by donations from civic-minded individuals and groups who believe in their advocacy and a vigorous volunteer force from around the Philippines – some even on a fulltime basis.
NAMFREL has been accredited by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in 1984 to conduct the Operation Quick Count (OQC). NAMFREL, the accredited citizen’s arm, is provided with a copy of the election returns (ER). Copies of the ER from the precinct level have served as bases for the “quick count” of NAMFREL in past electoral exercises. Its dedication to clean elections was best shown during the 1986 Snap Presidential Elections when more than 500,000 volunteers committed their time and even lives to ensure clean and honest elections.
However, since the implementation of the 1st nationwide automated elections system in 2010, NAMFREL’s OQC was consigned to history. The reason there was an OQC in the past was there was a “slow count”, the one from COMELEC. With the automated polls, the machines count and tally the votes and the COMELEC receives the results within two days thus, defeating the purpose of a much faster OQC from NAMFREL.
NAMFREL will still conduct its own parallel count using its copies of the ER, as a post-validation process. This is necessary to uncover discrepancies, if there is any, in the results of the local and national elections.
Reference:
Byington, Kaa. Bantay ng bayan : stories from the NAMFREL crusade, 1984-1986. Manila : Bookmark, c1988.
National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections. http://www.namfrel.com.ph/v2/home/index1.htm
Election debacle : disenfranchising the voters, mangling the party-list system : a reader on the Philippine elections. Quezon City : Center for People Empowerment in Governance, 2007
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