Know hows in the 2010 Automated Election in the Philippines. If you need someone to discuss this in your group, just email me digbay.exconde@gmail.com

2. Ballot

3. PCOS Machine2/8/2010 1 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

4. Days to go 2/8/2010 2 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

5. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 3 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

6. May 10, 2010 Casting of votes will be from 7am to 6pm. Valid IDs Employee’s identification card (ID) with the signature of the employer or authorized representative; Postal ID; Student’s ID or library card, signed by the school authority; Senior Citizen’s ID; Driver’s license; NBI/PNP clearance; Passport; SSS/GSIS ID; Integrated Bar of the Philippine (IBP) ID; License issued by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC); and Any other valid ID. In the absence of any of the abovementioned identification documents, the applicant may be identified under oath by any registered voter of the precinct, or by any of his relatives within the fourth civil degree of consanguinity or affinity who are registered voters of the same city/municipality. 2/8/2010 4 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

7. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 5 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

8. Establishing Identity of Voter: List of Voters with voting records Photograph If identity cannot be established through photograph Compare signatures Use Book of Voters Contains applications for registration Includes specimen signature of voter After his or her identity is verified, the name of the voter will be read out loud to give chance for any contention. 2/8/2010 6 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

9. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 7 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

10. Every voter gets only ONE ballot. No replacement ballots will be given to voters who make a mistake. 2/8/2010 8 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

11. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 9 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

12. Checklist: Permanent Marker Secrecy Folder Ballot Make sure the ballot is unmarked on both sides. 2/8/2010 10 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

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14. Ballot - Features Ballot is around 8” wide and 24” wide. Ballot has pre-printed names of candidates: Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial, Alias and Party Ovals opposite names of candidate 2/8/2010 12 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

15. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 13 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

16. Important Dos and Don’ts: Shade the oval completely Do not OVERVOTE! Note: only the section with overvoting is invalidated. The other parts of your ballot remain valid as long as you shaded the right number of candidate names for the position. You can UNDERVOTE It is better to go to the precinct with your list of chosen candidates already (codigo). Do not put any markings on the position identifiers and bar code. 2/8/2010 14 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

17. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 15 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

18. You will cast your own vote Just imagine that it’s just like inserting an ATM card into the machine or feeding paper into a fax machine. It does not matter whether you feed it in top first or bottom first. Or back on top, or front on top. Wait until the ballot is dropped into the semi-transparent ballot box. If the ballot is rejected, the BEI will allow for another re-entry, but if rejected again, the voter will not be issued a replacement ballot. 2/8/2010 16 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

19. PCOS Machine Precinct Count Optical Scan 2/8/2010 17 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

20. Step by Step Guide Go to your precinct on May 10, 2010 and check your name. Bring your voter’s ID or any valid ID with your registration stub. Present yourself to the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) to get a ballot. Listen to the BEI’s instructions on how to properly fill up the ballot. Receive the ballot. Make sure it’s empty and unmarked on both sides. Proceed to the voting area and fill up the ballot. Take your ballot to the PCOS machine and feed it into the machine. Wait for the confirmation message on the screen. Return to the BEI for indelible inking. 2/8/2010 18 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

21. The BEI chairman will in turn apply indelible ink at the base and extend it to the cuticle of the right forefinger nail of the voter, who will then be instructed to affix his or her thumbmark in the space in the Election Day Computerized Voters List (EDCVL). 2/8/2010 19 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

22. PCOS Procedures – Testing and Sealing At least three (3) days before election day. Public shall accomplish test ballots Ballots shall be manually counted and election returns accomplished Same set of ballots that was manually counted shall be fed into the counting machine Manual count shall be compared with the print-out of the election returns If public is satisfied that the manual count is the same as the automated count, the print-out and manually prepared election returns shall be signed-off by the witnesses Machines shall be sealed without any connection to transmission links Public shall be allowed to secure the polling places where the counting machines are installed The only time that the counting machines shall be opened is on election day in the presence of watchers 2/8/2010 20 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

23. PCOS Procedures – Start voting Before voting starts Show that ballot box is empty Transparent plastic Turn on and initialize PCOS Print “Zero Report” To show that there is no entry/vote in machine’s memory 2/8/2010 21 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

25. Perform close function

26. To prevent additional ballots from being inserted

27. After close function, PCOS automatically

28. Starts counting process

29. Prints election returns after completion of automated count

30. Eight (8) copies2/8/2010 22 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

31. PCOS Procedures – Counting Insert transmission cable After printing first eight (8) copies of ER Posted on a wall within the polling place for 48 hrs. To eliminate doubts that the PCOS can be manipulated remotely Perform electronic transmission function City/Municipality Board of Canvassers Dominant majority party, dominant minority party, accredited citizens’ arm and KBP Central server Print additional twenty-two (22) copies of ER Automatically performed by PCOS after completion of transmission 2/8/2010 23 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology

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34. Q & A 2/8/2010 26 Presentation prepared by MSC Institute of Technology