May 2010 Poll Automation: Are we ready?
With merely 104 days to May 10, 2010 the most burning debate today is the prospect of having a fully automated election.
Several sectors including the Catholic Bishops, the Makati Business Club, and several noted personalities from no less than the IT industry are questioning the wisdom of still pushing for automation in the coming elections. †There’s no longer sufficient time, they argue, and Comelec is either deliberately misleading us into believing that automation can still work or making unrealistic statements based on false and misguided bravado. 
On the other side of the fence, supporters of automation would claim that nay-sayers are simply paranoid as they’ve always been. †These are the “usual suspects” who would imagine conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios for every bit of government initiative, they’ll aver. †They will tell us to rally behind Comelec and support full automation in May 2010. †Finally, they’ll argue that we have to start somewhere and May 2010 is the best and maybe the only opportunity we’ll ever get.
What do you think? Let us actively join the debate and let our politicians and the Comelec know what we think and how we feel about this very important issue.
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You want to explain your choice or convince others to follow suit? †Leave a comment and let’s initiate a healthy and vibrant forum on this issue.
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All the signs are screaming at us! It will not work!
We have to make it work! We have to fully support automation, with watchful eyes and ever-vigilant resolve.
Must be ready because this will be the first national automated election in our country but there are questions that we should also consider like:
>How reliable can the computerized (automated) election system be?
>Is the software in the machines properly tested and proven bug-free?
Comelec should also be ready for the possible technical problems…
We’d all like automated election to successfully work in May 2010. But it is simply not realistic to expect it to work because of time constraints.