♥♥Automated Election for 2010♥♥

Automated Election

Each person is aiming for the unbeaten, well-organized, straightforward and reliable 2010 elections. Through automation we can ensure a credible transition of power and orderly elections, of course, there are also advantages and disadvantages of implementing the automated system for election. It provides efficient way for voting with less hassle. Voters cannot prolong the process of voting and lined up in a crowd. But a thought came across my mind. This could be the cause to worsen political situation. Possibilities for the candidates can hire a computer expert to hack the system and manipulate the entire votes. Unless if the system is fully secured.
The result, the unceasing corruption can worsen financial crisis we are experiencing today and another leading cause of poverty is corruption. If the government did not put their hands into their secret pocket, the less fortunate Filipinos will be given extra attention in terms of education to provide a better and brighter future.


REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8436


AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS TO USE AN AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM IN THE MAY 11, 1998 NATIONAL OR LOCAL ELECTIONS AND IN SUBSEQUENT NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTORAL EXERCISES, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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People shouted for a “Change”. And as a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology student[/i], I undoubtedly be of the same opinion with the “Automated Election Process.” As time goes by, a demand of new technology is now highly needed especially when we are going to consider an election. Filipinos who have seriously doubted the wisdom of participating in the voting exercise, saying a good many candidates win because of shameless cheating in the polls, may now witness honest elections, be assured that their vote will be counted, that there will be no flying voters, and no dagdag-bawas (adding and subtracting votes) starting with the 2010 polls.
The greatest source of doubt in the credibility of any election is “the number of hands that handle the ballot.” The automated process will respond to this concern “by limiting the amount of human handling of the ballots, through the use of technology, thus limiting the opportunities to tamper with them.
“Automation also means speed, giving no time for the painful loser to tamper with the ballot. The longer the period between the time that the vote is cast and the time that the winners are announced, the greater the time and opportunity to tamper with the results. This leads to violent elections as losing candidates who feel the stab of every vote counted against him or her, begin to resort to extra-legal means to change the tide of their fate. The psychological effect of approaching loss and the shame of losing face prompt losing candidates to use guns, goons and gold to tamper with the ballot.
For Filipino candidates, when guns, goons and gold prove inadequate, they resort to filing electoral protests, which block our courts and the Comelec. Millions of pesos are spent on resolving these cases; resources which are better spent addressing the immediate needs of the communities represented by these candidates. Losing candidates become perpetual roadblocks to the efforts of winning candidates, sowing hostility and disunity in the community.
The Automation Law is more than just an Automation Law. It is a commitment to respecting the right of our people to choose those who will lead them. It is a launching pad for a renewed sense of unity among our countrymen through the assurance that the process through which they choose their leaders is clean, free and credible. Let us be united in trying to bring about transparent, free and clean elections.”
Setting up the country's automated electoral system is a crucial step toward clean and honest elections. While it will not be a cure-all for the country's electoral problems, automating the polls will eliminate a lot of the human intervention that has made vote-rigging possible.
I am optimistic that an automated electoral system will facilitate fair and honest elections, provide a new set of government leaders with an unquestionable authority, and unite the country in facing the challenges ahead of us.
The heart of a true democracy lies in achieving clean and honest elections which provide mandate and authority to elect public officials. Our laws mandate the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to use an automated election system in the conduct of national and local elections to encourage transparency, credibility, fairness and accuracy on the 2010 elections.