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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Friday that the final version of programs for next year’s elections’ Automated Election System (AES) has been finished.

The technical process was overseen by Pro V&V, an international systems and software testing organization based in Huntsville, Alabama, and led by the chief executive officer and director Ryan Jackson Cobb.

Commissioner Marlon Casquejo, as well as representatives from the Departments of Science and Technology and Information and Communications Technology, were present for the event.

The construction of AES, which includes the Election Management System, Vote Counting Machines (VCMs), and the Consolidated Canvassing System, is part of the process.

The EMS collects information such as the number and profile of registered voters, their geographic areas, and polling precinct information, among other things, all of which are required for the creation of official ballots.

The CCS, on the other hand, is in charge of automating the tallying and monitoring of data from voting stations and lower levels of the board of canvassers.

The event, which lasted 8 hours, was live-streamed on the polling organization’s Facebook page.

Casquejo claims that the process is being broadcast in real-time to ensure openness.

“The goal of making this public is for transparency because following this one, we’re going to publish the said hash code of all these that are being trusted and built so anyone can check whether or not it’s the same software that we develop on Election Day,” he explained.

“Everything has been completed, and the trustworthy build has been completed successfully.” Thank you for your patience while we waited for the final activities,” he added.

Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez, on the other hand, explained that the activity entails the testing of all components of the system that will be utilized in next year’s elections.

“Basically, we tested all of the individual components of the AES, which is a large number of components. What we’re doing now is compiling them into a single set of instructions that will run the machines on Election Day, not just the machines, not just the VCMs, but the entire automated election system, which includes everything from the election management system to the VCMs to the CCS, which is the consolidated canvassing system, as well as all of the other programs that are required to run the entire thing,” Jimenez explained.

“That’s what we’re doing here,” he continued, “we’re literally constructing the entire software system for the 2022 Elections.”

The event began at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Alabama time (8 a.m. Friday, Manila time).

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