Automation of Elections

Commissions on Elections Special Bids and Awards Committee (Comelec SBAC) declared the only bidder qualified for the P11.2billion automation contract bidding. Poll automation is good, but corrupt officials needs cash. This could be just another cash scam. Remember the other Multi-billion Scams? Nothing happened. Scams are everywhere. Majority of the Filipino people when they hear "COMELEC" the equivalent description is cheating or fraud. Comelec is still in that prison, still in the captivity of negativity.

For the very first time, the Philippines will be automating its national election process in May 2010. It is good to know this, although vote buying or shall we say using money to influence the decision of the voter still cannot be eliminated with this technology. Poll automation is better that manual counting, but it is still not the ultimate solution for cheating at least it will lessen the cheating activities in our elections. We still should not rely everything to this technology. I hope the participation of the NGOs (Non-Government Organization) will be enough in monitoring the election process, the machine calculation and the counter checking of results. As what we know, politicians who cheat will do anything to win.

Im not against the election automation, but it's sad to say, do we have an alternative or any other options?