Time to change Automated Election LawPart 1EVER wondered how our Automated Election System (AES) law was enacted in 1997? In short, what they found were counting machines using optical mark recognition (OMR) technology that were quite similar to PCOS machines. They envisioned to use one counting machine for every counting center or public school. Hence, the OMR technology was lobbied in Congress with Comelec’s view in mind that it was high time that the Philippines automated the national and local elections in 1998. You may notice that the features enumerated are actually the specifications of the counting machines available at the time.

Source: Manila Times November 13, 2018 16:18 UTC