#smartmatic philippines

The Philippines, considered one of Asia's oldest democracies, is no stranger to this process. The provinces constituting the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM, now Bangsamoro Autonomous Region) were arguably the first in the Philippines to use machines with optical mark recognition (OMR) in their 1996 election. 2008 ARMM becomes the first region in the Philippines to conduct electronic voting with all of its provinces. Two technologies were tested in the polls, namely Smartmatic-Sahi's Direct-Recording Electronic (DRE) and AVANTE's OMR. 2010 Full automation of elections were implemented in the Philippines. OMR technology provided by Smartmatic, called precinct count optical scan (PCOS), was used by COMELEC for the purpose. Smartmatic commended the Filipino experience as the first automated elections in Southeast Asia. 2016 A massive breach of COMELEC's database was allegedly perpetrated by hackers affiliated with "LulzSec Pilipinas," while another group claiming to be from "Anonymous Philippines" defaced the commission's website. Read more in our articles including "A brief history of automated elections in the Philippines" and "OPPO Reno15 Series 5G: Delivering the Complete Mobile Creator Experience".