Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio Jr. on Wednesday said the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is eyeing an "automated manual counting" system for the 2022 elections where the winning candidates will be known five hours after polling precincts close.
Rio said DICT is currently studying how to fasten the manual counting at the precinct level, remove the need to tally votes on blackboards, and lessen the number of board of canvassers.
"Hybrid po more or less. Automated yung manual counting, ibig sabihin pinabilis ng teknolohiya yung pagbilang," Rio said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV.
"Ang [concern] lang namin is paano pabibilisin yung manual counting, paano i-automate yun na makikita ng tao yung pagbilang ng each and every ballot. Of course yung manual counting natin dati umaabot ng araw, papakita namin dito na puwede yung manual counting na mabilis. It can be done in five hours," he added.
Rio said they will present a prototype of the hybrid system to the public and submit it for the consideration of the Commission on Elections, where the DICT serves as chairman of its advisory council.
Rio said manual counting may be dated, but it removes doubt on the transparency of vote transmission, especially amid questions on the performance of poll technology provider Smartmatic in the past elections.
"Yung transparency ang isang bagay kung bakit yung tao ngayon ay nagdududa sa Smartmatic... ang isang problema yung pagbilang nung ating mga pagboto ay machine na. Nagdedepende na tayo sa machine na ito yung bilang niya. Doon siguro puwede tayo makapag-improve sa sistema," he said.
The hybrid system is also cheaper, according to Rio, adding selling all the old vote counting machines of the Comelec at half the price can already shoulder the cost of the new system.
Rio said the system can lessen congestion by removing clustered precincts and return to the old concept where each precinct only has around 200 to 500 registered voters.
The study of the DICT comes after President Rodrigo Duterte, in a speech before the Filipino community in Japan, urged the Comelec to get rid of Smartmatic, which has been supplying the country’s automated election system since 2010, and get a "fraud-free" contractor. —Joseph Tristan Roxas/KBK, GMA News
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Rio said DICT is currently studying how to fasten the manual counting at the precinct level, remove the need to tally votes on blackboards, and lessen the number of board of canvassers.
"Hybrid po more or less. Automated yung manual counting, ibig sabihin pinabilis ng teknolohiya yung pagbilang," Rio said in an interview on Dobol B sa News TV.
"Ang [concern] lang namin is paano pabibilisin yung manual counting, paano i-automate yun na makikita ng tao yung pagbilang ng each and every ballot. Of course yung manual counting natin dati umaabot ng araw, papakita namin dito na puwede yung manual counting na mabilis. It can be done in five hours," he added.
Rio said they will present a prototype of the hybrid system to the public and submit it for the consideration of the Commission on Elections, where the DICT serves as chairman of its advisory council.
Rio said manual counting may be dated, but it removes doubt on the transparency of vote transmission, especially amid questions on the performance of poll technology provider Smartmatic in the past elections.
"Yung transparency ang isang bagay kung bakit yung tao ngayon ay nagdududa sa Smartmatic... ang isang problema yung pagbilang nung ating mga pagboto ay machine na. Nagdedepende na tayo sa machine na ito yung bilang niya. Doon siguro puwede tayo makapag-improve sa sistema," he said.
The hybrid system is also cheaper, according to Rio, adding selling all the old vote counting machines of the Comelec at half the price can already shoulder the cost of the new system.
Rio said the system can lessen congestion by removing clustered precincts and return to the old concept where each precinct only has around 200 to 500 registered voters.
The study of the DICT comes after President Rodrigo Duterte, in a speech before the Filipino community in Japan, urged the Comelec to get rid of Smartmatic, which has been supplying the country’s automated election system since 2010, and get a "fraud-free" contractor. —Joseph Tristan Roxas/KBK, GMA News
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