Will Comelec manage credible elections?

Elections are three days away. And so far, we have not heard much about how the election returns will be announced to the public so that they will be believable and reflect a credible election. The way it was done in the past two elections just will not do.

If Comelec plans to do it the usual way as in 2010 and 2013, they will be met with skepticism, cynicism and downright doubt and anger. Take the ordinary voter who goes to his precinct, votes and even checks his vote through a receipt. The next information he gets is the canvass results without any proof that they are based on accurate election returns because the election returns are not mentioned or displayed anywhere. Ever since automation, the voter in the precinct has no proof to believe what the canvass results show.