{"id":23549,"date":"2014-08-25T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23549"},"modified":"2014-08-25T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T13:16:44","slug":"comelec-to-come-up-with-decision-on-the-aes-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/25\/comelec-to-come-up-with-decision-on-the-aes-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec to come up with decision on the AES Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11998\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"417\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec.png 417w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/comelec-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to come up with a decision on Tuesday regarding the automated election system (AES) it will use in the 2016 national and local polls.<\/p>\n<p>According to Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes, the commission en banc will be deciding on what technology they are going to utilize in the coming elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try to see kung magkakaroon kami ng consensus, at most Tuesday, which is our next en banc,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Tuesday, probably, meron na kaming decision kung ano ang gagamitin namin kasi recommendatory lang nga ang Comelec Advisory Council (CAC),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the CAC recommended for the reuse of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines as primary AES and another voting technology as secondary system.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Brillantes said that after deciding on the AES, they would prepare for the conduct of the bidding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would start bidding by September since our target is to finish it by the end of the year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the poll body chief, he wants to unburden the commissioners to be left in the Comelec upon his retirement on Feb. 2, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPara pagdating ng 2015 ay implementation na lang\u2026 pag retire namin sa February 2, wala na silang gagawin kundi implementation na lang,\u201d Brillantes said.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Brillantes, Commissioners Elias Yusoph and Lucenito Tagle are also set to retire in February 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is set to come up with a decision on Tuesday regarding the automated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}