PHPublished June 4, 2019 11:49am
By AMITA LEGASPI, GMA News
Information and Communications Technology Secretary Eliseo Rio said Tuesday that before June ends, they will present to the Commission on Elections and the public an alternative poll system that can be used in 2022 and future elections.
Rio said this was in connection with the instructions made by President Rodrigo Duterte in Tokyo, Japan.
“The President directed DICT to come up with options that can be used in future elections and of course we all know that wag na ‘yung Smartmatic,” he said during the hearing of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee-Automated Elections System at the Senate.
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Rio said they recognize that Comelec is an independent body but DICT, which is under the President, can always make recommendations.
“We are going to come up with options for the consideration of Comelec so that it may be able to reach the next election. We will have options to be presented to the Comelec, this committee, and the people of the Philippines as a whole, maybe as early as before the end of this month,” Rio said.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, JCOC-AES co-chairman, said there is now a need to amend Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Elections System law.
“The DICT can only recommend so sabi ko nga for those espousing hybrid system, they have to amend the law so Comelec can also consider hybrid,” he said.
Pimentel has been espousing the hybrid system where counting could be witnessed at the precinct level while the results are being transmitted electronically. — RSJ, GMA News
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