In 2025, the Comelec is expecting 71 million voters and would require an estimated 127,000 machines to be used in the 127,000 polling precincts.

Unlike the machines provided by Smartmatic, Garcia said that the new features of Miru Systems’ ACMs will ensure the privacy and transparency of votes. As demonstrated by COMELEC, the Miru’s machines ...

Philippine Information Agency (PIA)CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro (PIA) — Jail personnel and persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) were also among those who tried the Automated Counting Machines (ACM) of ...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to lease, not purchase, 98,000 faulty vote counting machines (VCMs) it plans to discard by the 2025 midterm elections. But at a press conference ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started Monday the demonstration on how to use the vote-counting machine (VCM) in malls as part of its drive to educate the public ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has increased its budget for the lease of 10,000 additional vote counting machines (VCMs) for use in the 2022 polls by at least P263 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) auctioned off “unserviceable” precinct count optical scanner (PCOS) machines and other election equipment, the poll body announced in a ...

The Commission on Elections awarded the contract for vote counting machines for the 2025 national and local polls to the lone bidder South Korean firm Miru Systems. Poll chairman George Garcia said ...

“Sa ngayon we are trying to buy more vote counting machines so that there will be only 700 voters in one precinct instead of 1,000. Right now we are bidding, but you know bidding takes three months,” ...

Comelec Commissioner George Garcia said they are shipping around 3,700 ACMs to three Comelec hubs in Mindanao, including hubs in Iligan City, Kidapawan City and Zamboanga City.

The vote counting machines (VCMs) supplied by Smartmatic are now being tested by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) at a heavily-guarded storage facility in Laguna province, south of Manila. So ...