PPCRV delegates and reviewers in full force at the Launch of the Local Source Code Review (LSCR) for the 2025 National and Local Election. PPCRV Volunteers headed by Dr. William Yu ( PPCRV IT Head), Don Sacamos, Source Code Review PPCRV TM leader and Ryan Ty of Cloud Security Alliance together with COMELEC Chair Garcia, Oct. 11, 2024. The LSCR NLE2025 is open for the Public to participate with the COMELEC to review the programs and systems that will be used for the NLE in 2025. This is the opportunity for all of us to ensure that systems used for the elections are not tampered or alter the true results of the elections. The volunteers of PPCRV render their time to review the various systems from the printing of the ballot, to the machine used during elections, to the systems that count all the votes to declare the winners in the election. That all these adhere to our advocacy of CHAMP (Clean, Honest, Accurate, Meaningful, and Peaceful) elections.The review covers:

By Ana de Villa – Singson I have been a PPCRV volunteer for over 33 years.  PPCRV is the Parish Pastoral Council tasked with Voters Education, Pollwatching and Conducting the Unofficial Parallel Count.  I am also the National Voters Education Head.  Recently, we launched Tibok Pinoy, a values formation program comprising of 6 books and 11 podcasts.  The prayer is to bring values, so much needed and very much lost, back to schools. At the launch held on September 10 at the Dusit Thani Hotel, I gave the speech which launched Tibok Pinoy.  The entirety of the speech is posted below. The 6 books of Tibok Pinoy. One for each model value and the last is book for DISCERNING netizens. Each book begins with the most important value of all…of being MAKA-DIYOS, God-loving and God-fearing. The entire Tibok Pinoy, values development program: 6 book and 11 podcasts. Podcast guest include H.E. Ambassador Henrietta T. De Villa, Samira Gutoc, Margie Moran – Floirendo, Mardi Mapa-Suplido, Ramon Fernandez, Myla Villanueva. QR codes of the podcasts are peppered throughout the books for blended learning. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-NiCQGQ9ohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ew2NRhdcA4 While most of you know us as pollwatchers guarding the vote, you see us on Election Day in  our white t-shirts with the Holy Spirit emblazoned on it as our logo, we do more than guard the vote.  We also undertake Voters Education. In 2010, With the onset of automation, we taught  voters the process of using vote counting machines.  We taught from the parish centers, sometimes we taught even from the pulpits,  we educated in roros, public markets, malls, even in buses and domestic planes.  We even went house to house, caravan style.  We won an ANVIL award for our creative  voters education program then and went to Malacanang for another award.  But while we make much of the machines, what matters most is the people.  It is people who create and configure a machine’s protocols.  It is people who cast the votes that are fed into the machines.  It is the people who decide the  leadership and destiny of our country. This is the voter’s education that matters the most, that kind that teaches you how to vote according to your conscience and how to choose worthy candidates.  But after 33 years of voters education, we in PPCRV took time to pause and re-examine.  Have we been successful in educating voters?  If we have, then why are Vote Buying and Vote Selling now raging at a wholesale level where even whole families and whole barangays can be bought?  Where in one night alone, while  waiting for his Bishop, one of our coordinators was plied with PHp 11000 in a matter of 3 hours peddled by various vote buyers?  Our most popular voters education material, PPCRV’s 10 Commandments for Voting, has been adapted many times over, even imported to Indonesia,  but can we really say we  have been successful when many Filipinos  choose candidates on the basis of name familiarity alone, without due diligence on a candidate’s character, capabilities and experience? VOTER’S EDUCATION.  The name itself is a misnomer.  We gather to vote every 3 years.  Is it true and effective education then if we teach only every 3 years during election periods.  VOTER.  Do we truly want to educate a voter only for the singular act of voting once every 3 years? Is that enough?  Or should we educate him to be the best that he can possibly be ?  Should we teach him to be just a good voter or should we aim higher and teach him to be a model Filipino citizen so that his heart beats, throbs, pulses PINOY all the time, anytime, anywhere and everywhere. TIBOK PINOY.  It is PPCRV’s Voters  Education…recharged.  We aim to educate and hone MODEL FILIPINOS, not just good voters, but model Filipinos . But who is a model Filipino?  What charactersistics must he have to be a model Filipino?  PPCRV conducted a nationwide survey to determine the key characteristics of a model Filipino.  The first and by far the leading characteristic is one that warms the heart.  It is of being MAKA-DIYOS.  A model Filipino must be God-loving and God-fearing.  Next, he must be MATAPAT.  MAGALANG, MASIPAG, MATULUNGIN, MAKABAYAN.   MAKA-DIYOS.  While making the podcasts on being Maka-Diyos, I met Samira Gutoc.  Sam is a force of nature.  She was part of ARMM’s legislative body, a one time peace panelist, an environmentalist who has been adjudged by a Jordanian organization as one of the Top 500 Most Influential Muslims in the world.  She said something that struck me.  The Muslim greeting of SALAM means peace and it is very close to the Jewish Shalom which also means peace.  They share the same words and yet are mortal enemies.  Catholics and Muslims both believe in Angel Gabriel, in Jesus who is a disciple to them, their Ramadan is actually in emulation of Jesus’ 30 days in the desert.  And yet despite having so much in common, our religions and cultures are engaged in a protracted war in the South.  Are we truly Maka-Diyos if we cannot rise above our differences to discover that we have so much more in common than we have differences?  MATAPAT.  When no one is watching, when the mettle of a man’s honesty matters the most, when there are no witnesses, are we MATAPAT?  In our book and podcast of MATAPAT you will meet RONALD GADALAN.  He is a janitor at NAIA 2.  He has been working there for 14 years and to this day he is not a permanent employee.  One day, while cleaning in the departure lounge, he found a Louis Vuitton bag.  Inside it was cash and jewelry worth Php 2.5 Million Pesos.  No one was watching.  There was no CCTV in that area.  And Roland, with tuition fees for his sons in college, what did he do?  He returned the Louis Vuitton bag to the lost and found and the bag was returned to its grateful owner.  When we are

We look forward to ushering in and enabling CHAMP (Clean-Honest-Accurate-Meaningful-Peaceful) elections with his guidance and counsel! Welcome to PPCRV Archbishop Rex Alarcon!

Getting ready! Held on June 15 at the Edsa Shrine, PPCRV convened PREPARASYON 2025 as a forerunner for the upcoming elections. In attendance were Coordinators from the Archdioceses of Manila, Kalookan, Pasig, Cubao, Imus, Antipolo, Novaliches, Parañaque, Laguna. Addressing the group were Chairman Evelyn Singson and Chairman Emeritus H.E. Ambassador Henrietta “Tita” de Villa. Trustees Ana de Villa-Singson, Dr. Arwin Serrano and Jun Ochangco completed the National delegation. Many thanks to Chairman Hon. George Garcia who was on hand to give key election updates and to the EID group headed by Director Shugar Llacuna conducted a live demonstration featuring the new Automated Counting Machine. Our gratitude to Fr. Jerome Secillano for hosting us in the historic Edsa Shrine! It was an inspiring day of open discussions, sharing and goal-setting in aid of CHAMP ( Clean-Honest-Accurate-Meaningful-Peaceful) Elections! It was lovely seeing you all! Boto Ko, Dangal Ko! Ipagtatanggol Ko!