NELSON CELIS
THE three-year period before the 2022 elections is just quite a short time to do a proper project management of a complex automated election system (AES), especially if irregularities have been cropping up every now and then. Learning from the past four automated national and local elections and one ARMM election in 2008, such irregularities should be resolved first before planning for the 2022 presidential elections. All stakeholders, the joint congressional oversight committee (JCOC) on AES, the Commission on Elections (Comelec), citizen’s arms, political parties, watchdogs, DICT, DOST, and subject matter experts, must agree on the common mindset on how the next elections should be conducted.