In fairness to the previous Congresses, we have had our share of model laws. Laws that in other countries are heralded as trailblazing and innovative. Such is Republic Act No. 8436 or the Automated Election System Law.

The AES Law has five operative principles: free, orderly, honest, peaceful, credible and informed elections. In the scheme of things, we already had two automated exercises, 2010 when the aggregate was beyond the number of total registered voters and SMARTMATIC had to tinker with the servers; and 2013, where we had the phenomenon of lines across ballots being read by the PCOS machines and the 60-30-10. The

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