PUBLIC trust in automated elections rests on a simple premise: that voting machines count ballots accurately and that ...

When courts overturn machine counts based on discrepancies with physical ballots, the question becomes unavoidable” Confidence in election technology is ...

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finished deploying the more than 100,000 automated counting machines (ACMs) for the May 12 national and local elections. Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite supposed improvements in the automated election system, the same perennial complaints hounded yesterday’s polls, as technical glitches, operational inefficiencies and ...

IN the landscape of Philippine democracy, the struggle between efficiency and trust has defined the electoral experience for decades. From the agonizingly slow manual counts of the pre-2010 era to the ...