By Janice Cave
Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. announced Wednesday the poll body may use the automated election system for the May 13 polls despite the absence of a source code or human readable instructions.
This, after the Technical Evaluation Committee has given its go signal for Comelec to use the AES.
"TEC certified that the AES can operate properly, securely and accurately be used in the coming May 2013 elections," Brillantes said.
"The TEC recommendation came after SLI certified that the AES is operationally suitable for use and affirmed its conformance with RA9369 [Automated Election Law]," Brillantes added.
SLI Global Solutions, an international certification entity, holds the source code which might not be released to the poll body without the consent of Dominion which has a legal battle with technology provider Smartmatic.
Smartmatic is the supplier of the Precinct Optical Count Scan for the 2013 polls.
With the TEC report, Brillantes said there is no need to worry about the source code.
Meanwhile, Brillantes also lauded the Commission on Audit for issuing new rules that will penalize government officials who will use government projects for propaganda purposes.
In a resolution, COA said officials can no longer put pictures of themselves and their names on government projects.
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