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Need for Automated Elections

AUTOMATED CANVASSING BASED ON TRANSPARENTLY PREPARED ELECTION RESULTS: A Proposed Election Procedure. Need for Automated Elections. Fraud and Terrorism under Manual Canvassing Delay in Election results (canvassing) Complicated procedures and Confusion Manipulation of results through trending

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Need for Automated Elections

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  1. AUTOMATED CANVASSING BASED ON TRANSPARENTLY PREPARED ELECTION RESULTS: A Proposed Election Procedure

  2. Need for Automated Elections • Fraud and Terrorism under Manual Canvassing • Delay in Election results (canvassing) • Complicated procedures and Confusion • Manipulation of results through trending • Dagdag bawas in ARMM areas

  3. Problems in Automation Law • 1. Time constraints • 2. Weak check and balance mechanisms • 3. Context: Presidential Elections • 4. Failure to hold the required dry run or testing under the Automation Law

  4. ”SEC. 5. Authority to Use an Automated Election System. – RA 9369 • “ x x x Provided, That for the regular national and local elections, which shall be held immediately after the effectivity of this Act, the AES shall be used in at least two highly urbanized cities and two provinces each in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, to be chosen by the Commission”

  5. “SEC. 37. Rules and Regulations. – The Commission shall promulgate rules and regulationsfor the implementation and enforcement of this Act. “Notwithstanding the foregoing canvassing procedure, the Commission is authorized to prescribe other manner or procedure for the canvassing and consolidation of votes as technology evolves, subject to the provisions of Section 7 hereof on the minimum capabilities of the AES and other pertinent laws.”

  6. Features of ACTPR • 1. Automated Canvassing based on transparently prepared results • 2. Speed without sacrificing integrity through dual audit systems—electronic and paper trail • 3. Opportunity to object to fraud • 4. Legal Rules for speedy resolution of objections

  7. Consolidation Centers and CVC Boards and Teams The Municipal and City BOC shall create : • A. One computerized consolidation center and CVC Board for every Polling Center with at least 50 precincts • B. “3-Person CVC Board”- Board Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor (Auditor) and Third Member (Consolidator) • C. Two-Team Members: Reader and Encoder

  8. Procedure Same procedure under RA 9369 for the precinct voting and preparation of ERs (see starting Section 32) with minor amendments.

  9. 1. Consolidation in Polling Centers The Municipal and City BOC shall create a Computerized Vote Consolidation (CVC) Board composed of three members who shall electronically consolidate the votes in all the Polling Centers (the schools) within their respective jurisdiction based on the Election Returns submitted by the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) in a particular Polling Center.

  10. 2. Transmission and Copies The CVC Board shall electronically transmit the consolidated results of a particular Polling center to the Municipal, City, District, Provincial and National Board of Canvassers. The same result shall also be simultaneously electronically uploaded to a secured designated website. The CVC, however, shall also copy the same result in 30 read only CDs and print 30 copies of the said result, to be sent to or claimed by the addressees listed under the Automation Law.

  11. 3. Basis of Canvassing The Statement of Votes by SOV of a Particular Polling Center electronically transmitted shall be the official basis of the canvassing by the respective BOCs without prejudice to consulting the printed and digitally stored result.

  12. 4. Objections All objections in the nature of manifest errors shall be immediately resolved by the BOC by consulting the electronically transmitted results, the digitally transmitted results and the printed copies of the results, using preponderance as the quantum of evidence required in resolving the same.

  13. Objections Allowed • 1. Tampering of Ballot Box and ER • 2. Incorrect reading by the Reader • 3. Incorrect recording by the Encoder • 4. Incorrect consolidation and addition

  14. Similar Procedure in Canvassing • 1. BOC composed of Chair, Auditor and Encoder • 2. Electronic Transmission of Results • 3. Certificate of Canvass and SOV

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