Monday, May 10, 2010

PCOS Machine


The Philippines before are using the manual system for counting a ballots in the election. It takes time for them to count every result in the precinct and after that it will be consolidated again in the national. For them to give the result correctly it takes month or weeks to declare who won for the election. As the Philippines is adopting the automated system this year, it took the challenge for the counting to be easier and faster. Precinct Count Optical Scan (PICOS) machines will help the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that their job would be effortless in terms of counting since the machine will do it automatically as soon as you are done inserting the paper.
There are a lot of issues since this is the first time that the Philippines shift to automation. It is also an assessment if it will be effective in giving the result of the election. But the question is, does it really help? The answer is YES. We just need to accept that nothing is too perfect, it is only by giving a chance or a room for improvement that we need to consider. It is through suggestion and proper planning that will work it out.

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