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"Breakthrough in Philippine Election System"

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PRECINT-COUNT OPTICAL SCANNER (PCOS)

Optical scanners in the polling place ("precinct-count optical scanners") can check paper ballots for correct marking. If a ballot is marked correctly, the optical scanner can count the votes and then drop the ballot into a sealed ballot box.
Proper security at the end of the election day means that a tally sheet printout from the optical scanner must be signed by the poll workers and posted publicly. Also each poll worker and observer must receive a duplicate signed printout. For each optical scanner, all ballots and another signed tally sheet printout must be stored together in a sealed bag so that recounts can be done scanner by scanner. The sealed bag of ballots and other records must be observed (guarded) at all times until the election is certified. The contents of each bag should not be mixed with the contents of any other bag.[electronic-vote.org]

This election system gadget aides in counting paper ballots in a faster way far-off than a manual counting. Its a actually a breakthrough in the history of Philippine Election System.

I guess its about time for the Philippine Voting population to apply technology in the counting of ballots.

May 10, 2010, will mark the day of the official use of the PCOS machine in the philipines.
There had been a series of test as to how to use this machine in different parts of the country,and to let the people get a hands-on in this election gadget.

The success of this gadgets in Philippine Election System will depend the future of a fair election in this country. But then again, since this gadget uses a wireless network, it is still prone to hacking by computer hackers. There had been a case of hacking with this PCOS Machine. Check this article "Optical scan system hacked in Florida"

For more information about PCOS Machine visit www.electronic-vote.org