Senators unanimously agreed to pivot to a hybrid voting system in 2022 presidential polls, Senator Imee Marcos said Thursday.
Marcos, who heads the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation, said the panel will tackle the proposed shift from automated elections.
“Everybody wants hybrid. Mukha namang unanimous pero certainly, si Senate President [Vicente Sotto III], gusto niya manual na,” Marcos told Senate reporters in a weekly briefing.
Under the proposed hybrid system, votes will be cast and counted manually at the precinct level while the transmission of results to the Commission on Elections’ central database will remain automated.
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“Gusto natin manual ang bilangan sa presinto para may ebidensya. ‘Yung tara-tara system para may pinanghahawakan,” she emphasized.
Marcos added that the Senate will try to pass the law that will revert the Philippines’ voting system in time for the next national elections.
Calls to revert to manual voting gained traction in 2019 polls when numerous technical glitches tarnished the integrity of the election results.
