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AES VOTERS EDUCATION

Automated Election System


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Elections, The Right to Vote andthe Right to Information


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1987 Constitution

Art. II, Sec. 1

The Philippines is a democratic and

republican state. Sovereignty resides inthe people and all government authority

emanates from them.


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SUFFRAGE

The right to vote

Art. V, Sec. 1:

Citizen of the Philippines

18 yrs. Old

Resident:At least 1 year in the Philippines

At least 6 months in the place where to vote


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Section 25 of R.A. No. 8436,

An Act Authorizing the Commission onElections to Use an Automated Election

System in the May 11, 1998 Elections andSubsequent Electoral Exercises


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Section 25. Voters Education

The Commission together with and in support ofaccredited citizens arms shall carry out a

continuing and systematic campaign through

newspapers of general circulation, radio andother media forms, as well as through seminars,symposia, fora and other non-traditional means

to educate the public and fully inform the

electorate about the automated election systemand inculcate values on honest, peaceful and

orderly elections.


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THE AUTOMATED ELECTIONSYSTEM (AES)

The 1987 Constitution mandates theCOMELEC to ensure free, orderly, honest,

peaceful, and credible elections.


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in 1992, immediately after the first Synchronized National and LocalElections (NLE).

first pilot testing of an automated election system using the OpticalMark Reader (OMR) technology in the 1996 Autonomous Region inMuslim Mindanao (ARMM) Elections

partial implementation in the ARMM provinces of the sameautomated system in the 1998 National and Local Elections

halted nationwide implementation of a centralized automatedcounting system for the 2004 NLE

the pilot test of a fully automated election system in the 2008 ARMMElections

For the coming 2010 elections, theCOMELEC is set to conduct the countrys first

nationwide fully automated electionsfromcounting of votes to transmission and

canvassing of election results.
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Statistics

Estimated 47,000,000 registered voters

44,009,069 registered voters - as of April 20,2009 ERB Hearing

58,327 registration records cancelled byreason of death

1,246,272 registration records deactivated


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What is this Automated ElectionSystem or AES?

Sec. 2(a) of RA 8436, as amended,defines an AESas a system usingappropriate technology which has been

demonstrated in the voting, counting,consolidating, canvassing and

transmission of election results, and other

electoral processes.


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What is PCOS?

On the other hand, PCOS refers to atechnology wherein an optical ballotscanner, into which optical scan paper

ballots marked by hand by the voter areinserted to be counted.


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Voting period

7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Unless there are voters waiting for their turn tovote

Poll Clerk lists down names voters queuing

Poll Clerk calls voter to cast ballot

Voter who fails to appear after being called twice shallnot longer be allowed to vote

Precinct set up

At least 10 voters can cast ballot at any one time


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Before voting starts

Show that ballot boxis empty

Transparent plastic

Turn on andinitialize PCOS

Print Zero Report

To show that there isno entry/vote in

machines memory


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Counting

At close of polls

Perform close function

To prevent additionalballots from being

inserted After close function, PCOS

automatically

Starts counting process

Prints election returnsafter completion ofautomated count

Eight (8) copies


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Counting

Insert transmission cable After printing first eight (8)

copies of ER To eliminate doubts that

the PCOS can bemanipulated remotely

Perform electronictransmission function

Print additional twenty-two

(22) copies of ER Automatically performedby PCOS after completionof transmission


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Municipal/CityBoard of

Canvassers

ProvincialBoard of

Canvassers

NationalBoard of

Canvassers

Congress COMELEC

Precinct

Election Returns

Mun./City COC

SOVP

Prov. COC

SOVM/C

Physicaltransport

Physicaltransport

Physical

transport

Manual System

of Canvassing


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Municipal/CityBoard of

Canvassers

ProvincialBoard of

Canvassers

NationalBoard of

Canvassers

Congress COMELEC

Precinct

Physicaltransport

Physicaltransport

Physical

transport

Electronic

Transmission

Comelec CentralBack-up Server

Advance Results/Monitoring

Server forDominant

Majority/ MinorityParties, Citizens

Arm, KBP

Advance Results

SecuredPublic

Website

Election Returns

Mun./City COC

SOVP

Prov. COC

SOVM/C


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People

Vote-buying

Coercion

Intimidation

Terrorism

Systems & Procedures

Misreading of ballots

Unreadable handwriting

Error

Honest

Deliberate

FraudManufactured election

returns

Tampering of electionresults


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Vigilance of citizenry

CooperationCoordination

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