Comelec will introduce additional automated features for the 2022 national elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will introduce additional automated features in order to ensure transparency during the 2022 national elections.
In a press briefing last May 14, Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo said that some other features not used in the 2019 elections will be introduced in the 2022 national elections.
Casquejo said that they’ll use the digital signatures of the electoral boards “in the transmission of (vote) results”.
According to Casquejo, this was to make sure that what were being transmitted from the vote counting machines (VCMs) in the voting center, those were election returns that will be transmitted also to the canvassing center. As such, Casquejo said that their electoral boards will have their own digital signatures.
Casquejo added that they planned to implement the said measure in the 2016 and 2019 elections but it wasn’t done due to lack of resources.
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The digital image of the voter receipt will also be transmitted to the transparency server.
A voter receipt, based on a report on Manila Bulletin, is a mechanism wherein the voter’s chosen candidates were printed and dispensed by the vote counting machines (VCMs).
“The media entities or any poll watchdogs can do their own quick count or audit using the voter receipts. That is to be more transparent in the results of the elections—the Comelec decided to include that in the transmission of the results, aside from the election returns,” Casquejo said.
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