If the national and local elections in 2019 would still be automated, there’s still hope for a real transparent, accurate and secure elections using Filipino-developed automated counting and canvassing system. The Automated Election System (AES) Watch has been supporting two (2) Filipino-made election systems right after the 2010 elections. These are the Precinct Automated Tallying System (PATaS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp10IeYMeIw,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhW0yzZt1s) and TrAnsPArenT Election System (TAPAT:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8zbu8Wcbyc), which are far, far superior than the Venezuelan-made Vote Counting Machine (VCM) or Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines.

As early as 2009, AES Watch had forewarned Comelec officials about the risks of Smartmatic’s solution using PCOS machines. They didn’t listen and we had the first election catastrophe in 2010. Because of this first ill-fated AES experience, AES Watch launched the Filipino Information Technology for Elections (FIT4E) in a conference five years ago, June 2011, at the University of the Philippines. Former Chairman Sixto Brillantes, who was the guest of honor then, fully supported the FIT4E.

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