Smartmatic and TIM won the automation contract with the Commission on Elections after submitting a bid of P7.2 billion for the procurement of 82,000 machines using the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) technology.
Smartmatic and TIM met at the Comelec last July 3 and they announced that the consortium will proceed with the automation of the next election.
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But this brings to mind the question, “How reliable can the computerized (automated) election system be?” knowing that anything electronic is much easier to falsify. Will the election finally put an end to the “dagdag-bawas” dilemma in our nation’s election results? Or, will the automation process make it much easier to fake election returns?
Let see the “trial-and-error” results in our election process begin on August 11, 2008.
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