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“On May 10, for the first time, Filipinos will choose their local and national leaders through a totally automated election system. The intent is to usher in a new era of politics free of ballot tampering.

The National Democratic Institute, which sent a mission to Manila last month to study preparations for automation, said that the elections commission had not yet released clear guidelines for conducting a random manual audit to check the automated results, which is 'central to ensuring the integrity of the vote tabulation.'”

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