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MANILA, Philippines — An official from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) indicated on Tuesday that the commission is prepared to deal with any technical issues that may develop during the May 9 elections.

“As early as January, we passed our contingency resolution. So, in the case that this occurs, we have this Comelec Election Monitoring Action Center and our National Technical Support, which we have already included in the training for our electoral boards. So, in the event that there are technical issues, we have our technical support staff, who are trained to troubleshoot the system, our VCM (vote-counting machines),” said Commissioner Marlon Casquejo during a press conference held on the sidelines of the Election Day Automated Election System (AES) end-to-end demonstration held at the Diamond Hotel in Manila.

These precautions, according to Casquejo, include the deployment of contingency VCMs in the event that faults in the AES “cannot be overcome.”

He went on to say that the end-to-end Election Day AES demonstration is critical in promoting election transparency, from polling precincts to the national board of canvassers.

“If we tie this to the hacking issue, you’ll observe that our VCM is a stand-alone during the moment of voting.” When asked how the end-to-end demonstration will eliminate the fear of hacking or security breaches, he said, “There is no way for anyone using any device or hacking knowledge to insert any results in the VCM.”

Stakeholders such as representatives from political parties, election watchdog groups, and members of the media, among others, were present at the demonstration.

“The VCM transmits results to the transparency server, data server, and backup in a fraction of a second, or let’s say 10 to 20 seconds.” So there’s no way a hacker could tamper with the results in those few seconds,” he added.

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