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Comelec presents 2019 polls software to public


 

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday showed the media and election stakeholders how the software system that will be used in the 2019 elections is assembled and programmed, GMA News' Mark Salazar reported on Balitanghali.

Comelec Commissioner Marlon Casquejo and engineers from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Department of Information Technology and Communications (DICT) were present during the presentation conducted from a computer laboratory in Alabama, USA.

They are part of the committee that will approve the source code and software.

Software company Pro V&V, which reviewed and certified the source code, assembled and programmed computer commands for the software to be read by the vote counting machines in 2019, the report said.

The process was streamed live at the Comelec session hall in Intramuros, Manila, before members of the media and election stakeholders.

Among those present were local source code reviewers, National Movement for Free Elections, Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Philippine National Police, and representatives from political parties.

The process is needed for the election management system and the printing of ballots. Comelec is set to release Saturday the list of candidates for the May polls.

In January, a similar process will be conducted for the vote counting machines and counting and canvassing system.

Next week, the certified clean source code will be brought back to the country and will be brought to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for safekeeping, the report said.

The testing and sealing of vote counting machines will be in April 2019.

Meanwhile, 2.5 million voters registered for the 2019 elections, more than the 1.5 million expected by the Comelec.

The television report said the poll body does not see any problem with the elections in Mindanao even if it us under martial law because the military and the police acknowledge the supremacy of Comelec during elections. —Amita Legaspi/KBK, GMA News

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