honestly, do you believe in our automated election system?

I think through automated elections, the risk of cheating is lesser compared to doing the manual casting of votes. And its much more efficient when it comes to counting of votes. Although there is still no assurance that the elections will be fair and clean. But at least through automated machines, this is one step towards a, hopefully cleaner and better elections.

I do not know how reliable the results are but the only thing that impresses me about it is the quickness the counting can be done the lesser the results of the votes could be tampered. I believe there are still flaws but manual counting of votes has more flaws and is more prone to cheating since it is done by human who could be tempted to be bribed when the counting is done. Although I am not saying the PCOS cannot be tampered at all but it needs to have knowledge on how to tinker the programming of the machine. So if this will be done the only responsible persons to do this would be comelec and the smartmatic because they are supposed to be the only ones who knows the program and they are responsible for it not to be hacked and tampered.

Isn't it that it is a similar machine used in The US during their elections as well? But I wonder why their elections is not as "dirty" as ours. Coz really, with people who have evil minds, no matter what kind of system we are going to use, if there are people who can be bribed, everything can still be manipulated.

Call me stupid or naive but I do trust those PCOS machines that are used in the previous election and also the mode of casting votes this coming may. I find it very convenient as for the voters and also for the counting of votes.

Very well said. Well, we should just support the PCOS machine for the faster vote counting rather the usual manual counting of votes. It takes a lot of time.

The procedure of electrote vote counting by machine is though a very easy method because mechine cannot make mistake and machine help us to work in shoert time what ever your mom said she isnot rely on this method because of afraid of human error or tampered ,but as you know thayt any one will to do tampering is easy to do manualy

i have my doubts, and i am thinking it is impossible that it is 100% sure and pure. There are many tests involved in a roll out of systems much more for such with huge responsibilities. and i think there are just too little time in the implementation of this. i doubt that it is problem free.

Hello iluvusabado, The PCOS lowers the risk of cheating in the elections,it doesn't really mean zero cheating in the elections. compare to the manual elections which was dangerous to school areas that are vulnerable to gunmen attacked specially when it's being transported into it's destination. I believe in the PCOS because Gordon who initiated it fought for this BILL and believed that we didn't deserved to be cheated on. the problem now is vote buying because there are still relentlessly selling their votes.

I think i like it automated because the result is fast. Just like last year, it was fast. In a matter of a few days, it was over.

I trust the PCOS system not only for its convenience for the voting public but the added security with respect to our votes. Almost all countries are using the automated system since it is technology. All those talk about the counting being manipulated has no basis. We now live in a generation of innovations and it is only right to do away with the manual counting of votes where potential for cheating is quite high. Oftentimes, our elderly parents are against change especially new technology but it rests upon us to do the explanation that this is a more secured and fast process of election. They have been so used to the manual system where it takes months before they can proclaim the winning candidates. The speed with which the ballots are counted reduces the possibility of cheating.

ya pcos are definitely not trustable, in India even though people protested against it while elections no body bothered about it. now a days with high end technology available it is so easy to tamper the pcos. Politicians do millions of scams and they easy afford to tamper those. we can never trust those pcos, only manual paper voting is best. some countries stopped it but some didn't

I think I am more confident in automated election than a manual operation.. yes automated still needs humans to operate it but pcos machine was designed to be accurate and our vote is more safer than in ballot boxes.. we just have to embrace the new system of voting and as a filipino let's be responsible and also be a keen observer on what is going on during and after election to avoid any wrong doings..

I think its nice because it can process fast than the manual , but government needs to provide generator for it so it wont be bothered if brown out occurs , and also a reliable connection for data transfer . I know it can still be manipulated by those cheaters cheaters .

The PCOS machines is already programmed, and the role of a person is to generate the datum collected from the voters input by printing it out. In terms of tallying the votes, it is the machine job and not a human job. I agreed to your mom that even if we say that is automated, it is also vulnerable to threats that it can be manipulated by an expert hackers. I am sure that PCOS machines do counting accurately, but depends how it is programmed to count.

Hi, If we keep on griping about how the government runs the election we get nowhere. I have full belief in the computer system, it is fast and accurate to my experience. If one has served during the manual election, he knows how tedious the whole process can be. It start from the casting of votes where someone has to look for the names in the voters list, down to the reading of the votes after the votes has been cast and putting the whole process on the tally board and tally sheets. Nowadays, as I have observed in the past election, the process has become simpler with the computerized system. All we have to do is wait for the result on the projection screen and that is all there to it. Beliefs that it can be rigged is farfetched and is only held by those not oriented with the whole process. It is too technical to discuss it here, like a computer technician, I can put my whole confidence in the accuracy of the whole set up.

Hi I am not old but i doubt it too. They can even cheat through machines but yes there is less risk than counting.

i don't think it is accurate but still praying for the fair and clean election, i hope we will have a leader that can serve human nation.

Using of the ballot boxes has more risk compared to PCOS. It is difficult to cheat on PCOS. And you don't have to transport the results unlike ballot boxes. Transporting ballot boxes could also be very dangerous.