Smartmatic won the bid for national election. Inspite of the technology that they are offering many speculations and doubt circulates in the society. For the Filipino masses , question if whether they are ready to this kind of technology, for the candidates, if this innovation will leads to the betterment of election results or use of his machine will only make fraud easier, and lastly if smartmatic capable of handling the nation wide 2010 national election.
This coming May 2010, every Filipino will have their taste of the first ever automated election here in the Philippines. This is a very significant milestone in our country’s history given those long years of tedious manual election process that not only gives burden to our teachers and volunteers, but has also left doubtful and questionable election results.
ReplyDeleteThrough the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan System) machine, an automatic counting of votes will take place. This won’t only make the task of our teachers lighter, but would also lessen massive cheating during election. But, before anything else, we must know first how reliable this automated system is. Below are important facts and details about Smartmatic’s PCOS machine.