Nothing’s more important now than to have credible elections.  The count must be made as transparent as possible, specially the canvassing so that there are no doubts, misgivings and recriminations from both the electorate and candidates of goodwill.  Some candidates will always claim they were cheated when they lose but they are obvious.

I was always for automated elections back in the long years as Namfrel Chair of Mandaluyong when we would go days without sleep as we manually counted the ballots in each electoral precinct.  I imagined that elsewhere in developed countries which had automated, the counting was faster and more reliable.  And if we automated, we would no longer fear goons snatching ballot boxes, etc. How wrong I was.

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