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DATE: PUBLICATION: TITLE: High-Tech options for automated polls presented to
Comelec AUTHOR: Aresti Tanglao From touch screen to internet to even
text voting. Welcome to the high-tech future of the Philippine election
system. A total of 14 local and foreign firms
have given the Commission on Elections a glimpse of what Filipino voters can
expect once they troop to polling precincts on Comelec records made available
yesterday said the firms have already conducted demonstration of their products
to Comelec officials last September 27, and are only awaiting the Comelec en
banc’s request for proposal for ballot counting machines before formally joining
the bid. The firms are Botong Pinoy, Enhanced
Electronics and Communications Systems, Single Number Answer Process, Lava
Technologies, Voting Technologies International, Total Information Management
Corp., Accuire Creative, Mega Pacific International Products, E3 Performex
Solutions, First LGU System, and Marubeni. Three of those wanting to supply the
Comelec with ballot counting machines have, this early, formed consortia with
foreign firms, purportedly to strengthen their chances in the
bidding. These partnerships include: Sirex
Philippines Corp.-National Computer Systems, Election Systems &
Software-Unisys-TTI Pivot-TCTI, and Photokina Marketing
Corporation-Unisys. Botong Pinoy presented a machine that
will allow registration, actual voting of candidates and counting of results.
Its system uses finger print and facial scan of voters and employs touch-screen
technology in casting of votes. Enhanced Electronic Communications
Systems has the so-called VSAT, (Very Small Aperture Terminal) which will link
the Comelec’s remote offices to the poll body’s main office in
Single Number Answer Process also
uses manual voting, but its system – which it claimed has standing patent
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