
Originally Posted by
chuck_scofield
The essence of this topic is not the possibility that the automated poll election can be hacked, but whether or not Philippines is ready to make a bold step towards ensuring a clean and modernized election. The moment politicians heard that the automation of poll elections has been approved, it immediately sent shivers down to their spines because they know that the days of election cheating will soon be over.
In the hopes of bringing back manual counting, these politicians are geared towards questioning the capacity of the machines to withstand hacking. Now is the perfect moment to prove that we want transform and change the image of elections here in the Philippines. Our hopes of having a credible election will be doused if the automated election will not push through.