A victory and a challenge

It almost went unnoticed. No theatrics. No fanfare. It may have been a small victory, but it is a significant one. Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, Co-chair of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System (JCOC-AES), at a hearing last March 19, 2015, concluded that the weakness of the current automated election system is its lack of transparency.

Transparency of the automated election processes, or the lack of it, is one of the issues raised against the automated election system used in the 2010 and 2013 national and local elections and planned for use in the 2016 national and local elections.