1. Only one ballot per voter. There’s no room for errors because voters can’t ask for another ballot in case of mistakes.

2. Voters need only to shade the oval beside the name of their chosen candidates. Over 50 percent of the oval must be shaded for the vote to be counted by the automated poll machine.

3. Overvoting or selecting two or more candidates for positions where only one winner will be declared invalidates that particular contest but not the whole ballot.

4. It should be the voter inserting the ballot into the automated machine. The machine will acknowledge that a vote has been cast by an uptick in the ballot number count.

Ballot Front Ballot Back New ballot security measures 1. Barcode, which is the unique identifier of each ballot. The barcode makes sure each ballot is counted and counted only once. 2. Ultraviolet (UV) ink. This is not visible to the naked eye, but lens of PCOS machines scan for the UV ink. 3. Precinct specific. A PCOS machine will accept only ballots meant for it. Videos How to fill up ballot Ballot security measures Poll machine security measures Source: Comelec

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CEBU CITY — Amid anxiety over the first automated elections in the country, a lawyer reminded voters that failure of automation does not necessarily mean a failure of elections.

The machines bogging down or the system getting hacked is not even automation’s most serious threat, he said, but older weaknesses in the electoral system, like vote-buying and harassment of voters and election inspectors, said lawyer Luie Tito F. Guia. Read rest of story