The nation has just passed through a very important milestone in its history.
The first automated counting and electronic transmission of votes have moved the nation one notch up the information technology and there should be NO TURNING BACK!
In spite of the generally accepted credible election, the nation is divided by the pros and cons and by the experts and what-have-you.
The cons preferred to have the old way of counting votes, that is, manual. Allegations of massive cheating through vote buying and shaving/adding of votes are forwarded by everyone from every corner.
Allegations such as:
- Pre-programed memory card of the PCOS machines;
- Transmission of election data prior to election; and
- Shaving/adding of votes by COMELEC Officials for a fee.
While others are all praises to the automated process of counting the votes and electronic transmission of election returns.
Nevertheless, any which way we look at what happened, it…
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Re-Engineering and Modernization of Electoral Systems 