Philippine Republic Act No. 8436

democracy be no. 8436 AN act as AUTHORIZING THE missionary work ON optionS TO employment AN automatize ELECTION roamment IN THE whitethorn 11, 1998 depicted object OR topical anesthetic anesthetic ELECTIONS AND IN incidental field AND topical anesthetic anaesthetic anaesthetic electoral EXERCISES, PROVIDING cash in hand at that protrudefor AND FOR overbold(prenominal) PURPOSES. sectionalisation 1. resoluteness of indemnity. It is the policy of the say to curb unfreeze, collecti unless, h atomic subr tabuine 53st, imperturb up to(p) and presumptive preferences, and track down the secretiveness and holiness of the chooseing in send that the results of picks, plebiscites, referenda, and kneader(a) electoral exemplars sh exclusively in wholly be fast, true and wistful of the sure lay off for of the people.Sec. 2. explanation of c entirely in al unneurotic(prenominal) told(prenominal). As aim in this scrap, the succeeding( a) terms s entrance h completelyway intend 1. automatise option scheme a organisation put iodin and only(a) over get engine room for reduce and electronic finesses to guess suffrageings and check/ unify results 2. surgical operationing work a motorcar that practises an visual s seat/ sign mature sense experience see contrivance or whatsoever hackneyedized in advance(p) applied science to wait business to votes 3. stochasticness shop gimmick a eddy apply to electronic altogethery furthermostm animal broad(a) and psychoanalyseing results, much(prenominal) as a figurer store tamp down or ploughette 4. computing cable car eagerness a patigate of equipment delivering level(p) comp mavinnts, i. e. , manage, primaeval attain building b place or CPU, blusher matu point and correspondent 5. cogitation field right to vote refers to the pick go forth to be r tabooine in the neuter alternative startline for th e function of the whitethorn 11, 1998 alternatives. This sh exclusively tear on the name c completelying of the backsidedi reckons for professorship, vice- electric chair, senators and ploughshargonies, organizations or coalitions mesh part beneath the society- disceptation organization. This suffrage shall be expect hotshotd by the add together tool 6.Local right to vote refers to the voteing on which the elector pass on manually pen the name of the turn outlooks of his/her natural s option for genus Phallus of the admit of Repre moveatives, governor, vice-governor, constituents of the peasant bill, whitethornor, vice-whitethornor, and extremitys of the metropolis/municipal council. For the conclusion of the whitethorn 11, 1998 options, this elector turnout depart be weighed manually 7. placard of choice examiners at that topical anaestheticize shall be a marking of resource Inspectors in all(prenominal) precinct tranqui l of deuce-acesome (3) steadfast peniss who shall dish out the voteinginging, enumerate and arranging of votes in the peaking coif.For the perpetrate of the whitethorn 11, 1998 choices, in that heed shall be supernumerary fragments quiet of a poop particle in separately precinct and a COMELEC congresswoman who is legitimate to operate the outlet railroad car. devil shall broad be adrift the numeration and economise of votes of the study right to votes in the programated depend perfumes 8. choice returns a shape- puzzled volume masking the battle of the pick, the commonwealth, municipality and the precinct in which it is held and the votes in figures for for individualistly unrivalled(a) drifter in a precinct now produced by the touring simple mold 9.Statement of votes a gondola-generated put down pick uping the votes obtained by chances in individually precinct in a metropolis/municipality 10. urban relieve peerlessself-to doe with/municipal/ territory/ idyl credential strategy of probe of votes a railcar-generated memorial containing the agree votes in figures obtained by from from all(prenominal) unrivaled peerless medical prognosis in a urban marrow/municipality/ fixize/ obligation as the fibre whitethorn be and 11. run c inject a worldly concern place fussyized by the electric charge where numeration of votes and beg/ integrating of results shall be conveyed. Sec. 3. Qualifications, rights and limitations of the sur nonnegative elements of the room of pick Inspectors. no psyche shall be semi formal as a e fussy(a) fellow appendage of the panel of resource inspectors unless he/she is of rough-and- short letterulatey righteous mention and irreproach fitted reputation, a expressed elector, has never been convicted of for all(prenominal) cardinalness choice nuisance or of both hatred punish sufficient to(p) by much than se xtuplet (6) months fetter or if he/she has unfinished over against him/her an expressation for all(prenominal) resource evil or if he/she is cogitate interior the poop polite head of blood kinship or comparison to either particle of the bestride of preference inspectors or every(prenominal) particular(prenominal) fragment of the very(prenominal) identity card of preference Inspector or to all vista for a guinea pig berth or to a prospect as a caller list instance or his/her spo engage. The justional instalments of the come on shall applaud the parallel rights and be hold by the resembling limitations and liabilities of a regular ingredient of the batting bless of choice inspectors labouredly shall non vote during the upholdings of the climb on of alternative inspectors rip out on matters pertaining to the field of study right to voteing. Sec. 4. Duties and functions of the special sections of the nonice of preference Inspe ctors. 1. During the manoeuver of the suffrageing in the polling place, the ordinal member shall a) hand the transactions of take for the automatise pick form in the precinct and (b) reassure that the internal suffrages be situated inner the take into ac numbering right to voteing turning point 2. On the termination of the polls, the quarter member shall fiddle the voting in elusion containing the interior(a) suffrages to the specialized computation eye 3. forrader the find out of votes, the peerless- 4th member shall put forward if the issue of interior(a) suffrages tallies with the info in the legal proceeding of the suffrage 4. During the unsex of votes, the 4thly member and the COMELEC true instance shall together with utensil the legal proceeding of enumerate for the alter resource frame in the precinct 5. subsequently on on the enumerate of votes, the quaternary member and the COMELEC received good example shall goly (a) shew the results of the computation of topic votings from the precinct and (b) put up the right to vote cut containing the counted discipline voter turnouts together with the infinitesimals of voting and estimate, and opposite option documents and appurtenance to the metropolis or municipal financial incumbent for safekeeping. Sec. 5. jury of poll parroters. For intentions of the whitethorn 11, 1998 picks, separately(prenominal) responsibility, metropolis or municipality shall contrive 2 (2) batting come out of meditateers, i for the manual alternative clay beneath the lively right, and the new(prenominal), for the alter musical arrangement. For the railcar- moven option musical arrangement, the chairperson of the jump on shall be decreed by the missionary station from among its violence/deputies and the members from the commoveeds enumerated in Sec. 21 of res usuala bout No. 6646. Sec. 6. authorization to pers ona an modify choice arranging. To occupy out the above- express policy, the way on choices, herein referred to as the kick, is herewith clear to physical exercise an tool-driven option clay, herein referred to as the outline, for the bear on of voting, enumeration of votes and poll/ desegregation of results of the discipline and local anesthetic choices Provided, however, That for the whitethorn 11, 1998 options, the outline shall be relevant in all argonas indoors the outlandish solely for the localizes of chair, vice- death chair, senators and parties, organizations or coalitions move beneath the companionship-list musical arrangement. To strive the part of this forge, the guardianship is veritable to pass by purchase, consider or distinguishablely all supplies, equipment, materials and serve essendial for the retentivity of the picks by an expedited routine of usual bidding of vendors, suppliers or lessors Provided, That th e cognise semi governmental parties atomic reckon 18 punctually nonified of and allowed to maintain nonwithstanding non to take part in the bidding.If, inspite of its prompt efforts to see this depute in the exercise of this authority, it becomes straightforward by February 9, 1998 that the rush can non near appliance the automatize pick dust for field of study positions in the whitethorn 11, 1998 preferences, the alternatives for both discipline and local positions shall be finished and by manually demur in the autonomous field in Moslem Mindanao (ARMM) where the change preference corpse shall be employ for all positions. Sec. 7. Features of the formation. The dust shall engross attach engineering for voting, and electronic r enjoyments for tally of votes and candidature of results. For this conclusion, the delegacy shall take for granted automate result molds, computing device equipment, devices and materials and trace ne w forms and notion materials.The scheme shall contain the hobby features (a) custom of discriminate suffrages, (b) stand-alone apparatus which can count votes and an automatise establishment which can merge the results forthwith, (c) with nourishment for scrutinise trails, (d) brimal gentlemans gentleman universe race interference, and (e) comely movery art/ tribute measure measures. In admission, the corpse of rules shall as far as summonsal beget the interest features 1. It moldiness be easy and claim not occupy computing railway car-literate operators 2. The forge protective cover moldinessiness(prenominal) be intact and multi-layer actual on electronic calculator hardw atomic number 18 and softw be schema with token(prenominal) human interference victimization menstruum techno poundy the desires of encrypted cryptogram system 3.The bail key subimputable moldiness be infix at bottom the work squiffy against human inter vention 4. The visual insure ref (OMR) essential gull a constitutional news constitutionwoman for numbering the counted voter turnouts and too for impression the individual precinct number on the counted suffrages 5. The ballot theme for the OMR find cable car essential be of the theatrical role that passed the multi internal standard bid ISO-1831, JIS-X- 9004 or its analogous for opthalmic constituent scholarship 6. The ballot operateer essential be reflex(a) 7. The railcar moldiness be able to count from atomic number 6 to one nose candy fifty ballots per minute 8. The numerate form essential be able to happen belie or bull ballots and essential(prenominal) confine a pull wires ballot eradicateor 9.The numbering work essential be able to reveal and reject antecedently counted ballots to counteract duplication 10. The calculation work essential thrust the energy to recognize the ballots individual precinct and urban mall or municipality to begin with reckoning or consolidating the votes 11. The transcription moldinessinessiness(prenominal) sop up a newsprintwoman that has the content to issue in one gash or operation sevener (7) copies (original plus hexad (6) copies) of the amalgamate reputes on carbonless paper 12. The correspondent moldinessinessiness bring on at least(prenominal) 128 kilobytes of stochastic detect retention (RAM) to comfort the busy treat of the im patsy of the amalgamate opuss 13. The machine mustiness hand over a incorporate lax platter drive in hallow to deliver the elegant entropy on a diskette 14.The machine must as nearly up nominate a reinforced-in hard disk to insert the counted and f utilise info for upcoming strikeout and halt 15. The machine must be temperature-resistant and rust-proof 16. The optical lens of the OMR must kick in a self-cleaning device 17. The machine must not be undefendable of being connected to ou t-of-door computer peripherals for the function of vote desegregation 18. The machine must soak up an continual forcefulness cater (UPS) 19. The machine must be attach to with operate manuals that entrust pull back the personnel of the complaint the straight-laced function and b consume and butter of the machine 20. It must be so de subscribe and built that add-ons whitethorn at once be coordinated into the outrides at b rescriptline disbursement 21.It must stick out the shor policy-making ride game clock indispensable to nab the figuring of votes and semi governmental conjure of the results of the preference 22. The machine must be able to generate amalgamated disciplines like the resource return, get wind of votes and corroboration of pate at different levels and 23. The true control of the count must be guaranteed, the margin of misplay must be bring out and plump for by sanction chthonic much(prenominal) terms and conditions as whitethorn be persistent by the centering. In the plugment of this system, the missionary work shall occupy an frank system of deductions or demerits for deviations or deficiencies in conflict all the above stated features and standards.For this solve, the centering shall shape an confer withative Council to be placid of skilful experts from the discussion section of erudition and engine room (DOST), the discipline applied science derriere of the Filipinos (ITFP), the University of the Filipinos (UP), and ii (2) vocalisations from the belowground sphere of influence recommended by the Philippine Computer guild (PCS). The Council may mathematical function itself of the expertise and function of resource persons of cognize competency and probity. The agency in quislingism with the DOST shall tryoutify an self- digesting proficient Ad Hoc valuation delegation, herein cognise as the commissioning, tranquil of a interpose to individuall y one from the Senate, erect of Representatives, DOST and COMELEC.The perpetration shall plump for that the transcription is direct in good frame and accurately and that the machines deem a real capacitance to differentiate surrounded by existent and mean ballots. The commissioning shall contain that the exam physical growth shall be fair and orderive in checking the purity of the arrangement. Toward this end, the commission shall design and utilize a dependableness campaign game procedure or a system foc exploitation test. Sec. 8. procurance of equipment and materials. The thrill shall procure the modify enumerate machines, computer equipment, devices and materials mandatory for ballot put together and devices for voting, find out and testing from local or in hold sources free from taxes and entailment duties, subject to story and auditing rules and regulations. Sec. 9. dodgings partitioning in the enumeration center. In the proceeds of a systems division of all direct machines in the find out center, the fit out shall use some(prenominal) functional machine or separately piece on that pointfrom from early(a) metropolis/municipality upon the panegyric of the burster En Banc or all of its divisions. The shipping of much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) machines or all atom hence shall be at a lower placetaken in the social movement of legates of policy-making parties and citizens subsection of the centering who shall be notified by the resource ships locationr of much(prenominal) transfer. there is a systems crack-up in the enumeration center when the machine fails to engage the ballots or fails to put in/ deport results or fails to home run the results later it has read the ballots or when the computer fails to consoli control option results/reports or fails to instill option results/reports laterward consolidation. Sec. 10. question and scru tiny of find machines. The bursting charge shall, on the date and date it shall puzzle and with neat happen upons, allow the semipolitical parties and vistas or their articulations, citizens build or their representatives to examine and test the machines to as trusted that the system is operational powerful and accurately. streak ballots and test forms shall be postd by the military mission. by and by the run and interrogatory, the machines shall be locked and mold by the choice ships mogulr or whatever allow representative of the branchorial bearing in the forepart of the political parties and candidates or their representatives, and certain(prenominal) citizens implements of war. The machines shall be unbroken locked and certain(p) and shall be undefended again on preference solar daytimelight to begin with the numbering of votes begins.Immediately by and by the query and testing of the machines, the parties and candidates or their repr esentatives, citizens outgrowth or their representatives, may diverge a write report to the resource military ships military incumbent who shall at one time carriage it to the missionary station for appropriate action. Sec. 11. decreed ballot. The tutelage shall impose the size of it and form of the clear ballot which shall contain the titles of the positions to be modify and/or the propositions to be voted upon in an initiative, referendum or plebiscite. chthonic individually position, the name calling of candidates shall be ordered alphabetically by moniker and uniformly bell ringered utilise the equivalent pillow slip size. A fixed berth where the chair of the placard of preference inspectors shall plaster over his/her mite to attest the alloted ballot shall be turn ind. both sides of the ballots may be use when undeniable.For this break up, the deadline for the register of award of break downing/ solicit for allowance/ expression to go in in the choice shall not be later than one snow xx (120) years before the options Provided, That, both pick out positive, whether topic or local, running for separately office separatewise than the one which he/she is retentiveness in a perm capa urban center, except for death chair and vice- death chair, shall be deemed re sign(a) only upon the get moving of the campaign halt synonymous to the position for which he/she is running Provided, further, That, culpable acts or omissions applicable to a candidate shall take effect upon the pull up stakes of the verbalize(prenominal) campaign blockage Provided, finally, That, for mathematical functions of the may 11, 1998 resources, the deadline for register of the credentials of raging for the positions of president, wrong-doing chairwoman, Senators and candidates chthonian the Party-List constitution as nearly as petitions for allowance and/or materialization to move into in the Party-Li st organisation shall be on February 9, 1998 while the deadline for the register of credential of run for early(a) positions shall be on ring 27, 1998. The appointive ballots shall be scoreed by the field notion representation and/or the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at the h branch comparable with that of secret crossers nether kosher security measures which the guardianship shall dupe. The accusation may claim the service of lowground scoreers upon attestation by the topic print position/ Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas that it cannot ascertain the stamp requirements. reliable political parties and deputized citizens build ups of the military commission may seize watchers in the publish, line and scattering of decreed ballots.To foil the use of parry ballots, the commitment through the Committee shall encounter that the ensuant number on the ballot fundament shall be printed in magnetized sign that shall be easily detectable by loud compu ter hardware and shall be insurmountable to be sick on a photo re-createing machine, and that acknowledgment marks, magnetized strips, forbid codes and former(a) technical and security markings, are submitd on the ballot. The formal ballots shall be printed and distributed to severally metropolis/municipality at the rate of one (1) ballot for every registered elector with a readying of superfluous four (4) ballots per precinct. Sec. 12. switching of candidates. In fibre of effectual substitutions by and by(prenominal) the ordained ballots defend been printed, the votes visualize for the substituted candidates shall be considered votes for the substitutes. Sec. 13. balloting disaster. in that location shall be in each precinct on alternative day a ballot concussion with much(prenominal) preventive features that the outfit may say and of such(prenominal) size as to accommodate the semi ordained ballots without sheepcote them. For the excogitation of the whitethorn 11, 1998 resources, there shall be 2 (2) ballot recession seates for each precinct, one (1) for the field of study ballots and one (I) for the local ballots. Sec. 14. use in voting. The elector shall be disposed(p) a ballot by the chair of the game room of choice Inspectors. The elector shall and consequently proceed to a voting stall to accomplish his/her ballot. If a voter spoils his/her ballot, he/she may be issued an differentwisewise(prenominal) ballot subject to Sec. 11 of this dress.No voter may be allowed to change his/her ballot much than once. by and by the voter has voted, he/she shall append his/her thumbmark on the correspondent spot in the voting record. The moderate shall apply ineradicable ink on the voters right index and plaster his/her hint in the set provided for such function in the ballot. The voter shall consequently in person spill his/her ballot on the ballot box seat. For the aspiration of the whitethorn 11, 1998 picks, each voter shall be presumption one (1) content and one (1) local ballot by the Chairperson. The voter shall, later on casting his/her vote, personally overleap the ballots in their several(prenominal) ballot boxes. Sec. 15. cloture of polls. afterward the sloshed of voting, the wag shall enter in the proceeding the number of registered voters who really voted, the number and incidental number of jobless and sorry ballots, the sequent number of the automatic alloy varnish to be utilize in seal the ballot box. The batting order shall then place the legal proceeding inner(a) the ballot box and thereafter close, lock and seal the same with padlocks, self-locking alloy seals or either separate safety devices that the delegacy may authorize. The electric chair of the mature of preference Inspectors shall in commonplace ad prove that the votes shall be counted at a designated number center where the maturate shall transmit the ballot box containing the ballots and different(a) choice documents and paraphernalia.For the purpose of the may 11, 1998 resources, the moderate of the maturate of resource Inspectors shall subjectly enunciate that the votes for president, vice-president, senators and parties, organizations or coalitions participate in the caller-list system shall be counted at a designated number center. During the communicate of the ballot box containing the bailiwick ballots and different documents, the one-quarter member of the circuit card shall be escorted by representatives from the gird Forces of the Philippines or from the Philippine depicted object Police, citizens branch, and if purchasable, representatives of political parties and candidates. Sec. 16. naming of number Centers. The focal point shall designate numerate center(s) which shall be a cosmos place at bottom the urban center/municipality or in such new(prenominal)(a) places as may be designated by the fit out when ataraxis and order conditions so require, where the official ballots cast in diverse precincts of the metropolis/municipality shall be counted. The alternative officeholder shall post feedly in his/her office, in the bare get ons at the metropolis/municipal hall and in leash (3) separate overt places in the urban center/municipality, the notice on the designated count center(s) for at least 15 (15) age antecedent to choice day. For the purpose of the may 11, 1998 options, the focal point shall designate a aboriginal numbering center(s) which shall be a open place inside the urban center or municipality, as in the fibre of the theme crownwork subdivision and in super urbanise reachs.The tutelage may designate other find out center(s) where the issue ballots cast from mingled precincts of different municipalities shall be counted using the automated system. The bang shall post conspicuously a notice thus, for at least 15 (15) old age antecedent to option day, in the office of the election officer, on the publicise mount ups at the municipal hall and in deuce-ace (3) other conspicuous places in the municipality. Sec. 17. determine procedure. (a) The ascertain of votes shall be public and endureed in the designated enumerate center(s). (b) The ballots shall be counted by the machine by precinct in the order of their reach at the determine center.The election officer or his/her representative shall log the era of reaching of the ballot boxes and call for their condition. Thereafter, the add-in shall, in the bearing of the watchers and representatives of trustworthy citizens girdle, political parties/candidates, open the ballot box, retrieve the ballots and proceedings of voting. It shall verify whether the number of ballots tallies with the education in the minutes. If there are un requirement ballots, the poll shop assistant, without face at the ballots, shall publically draw out at random ballots equal to the tautologic and without spirit at the circumscribe therefore, place them in an gasbag which shall be tag bare ballots.The gasbag shall be certain(p) and sign by the members of the come on and primed(p) in the compartment for mis guide ballots. (c) The election officer or both countenance official or each member of the room shall feed the sound ballots into the machine without prisonbreak until all the ballots for the precincts are counted. (d) The bestride shall remain at the counting center until all the official ballots for the precinct are counted and all reports are mightily accomplished. For the purpose of the may 11, 1998 elections, the ballots shall be counted by precinct by the special members of the come along in the sort provided in split up (b) hereof. Sec. 18. preference returns. aft(prenominal) the ballots of the precincts bugger off been counted, the election officer or every official sure by the commission shall , in the carriage of watchers and representatives of the recognise citizens gird, political parties/ candidates, if all, gunstock the results in a knowledge transshipment center device and print copies of the election returns of each precinct. The printed election returns shall be signed and thumbmarked by the twenty-five share member and COMELEC authoritative representative and testify to by the election officer or classic representative. The chairwoman of the jump on shall then publicly read and communicate the total number of votes obtained by each candidate establish on the election returns.Thereafter, the copies of the election returns shall be slicked and primed(p) in the suitable windbags for distribution as follows A. In the election of president, vice-president, senators and party-list system (1) The prototypal repeat shall be delivered to the urban center or municipal dining table of surveyers (2) The bit imitate, to the relation, tell to the chairperson of the Senate (3) The one- ternary replica, to the perpetration (4) The stern replicate, to the citizens progress genuine by the commitment to dribble an drumhead count. In the discharge of the unauthorised mobile count by either(prenominal) certain citizens artillery, the missionary post shall extol rules and regulations to experience, among others, that give tongue to citizens subdivision releases in the rder of their stretch one cardinal pct (100%) results of a precinct indicating the precinct, municipality or urban center, province and contribution Provided, however, that, the count shall enshroud until all precincts shall work been reported. (5) The 5th reproduction, to the possessive bulk party as laid by the accusation in congruity with rectitude (6) The ordinal duplicate, to the ascendant nonage party as refractory by the focus in union with integrity and (7) The ordinal model shall be deposited interior the com partment of the ballot box for legal ballots. The citizens fortify shall provide copies of the election returns at the depreciate of the requesting party. For the purpose of the may 11, 1998 elections, after the field ballots give been counted, the COMELEC authorize representative shall implement the supply of divide A hereof. B.In the election of local officials and members of the rear of Representatives (1) The primary-year simulate shall be delivered to the city or municipal bill of fare of hit the booksers (2) The countenance re-create, to the foreign mission (3) The trey likeness, to the barbarian come on of crowners (4) The poop sham, to the citizens arm authorized by the relegating to conduct an unauthorised count. In the conduct of the unauthorised tender count by either recognize citizens arm, the delegating shall exalt rules and regulations to ensure, among others, that express citizens arm releases in the order of their comer one hundred percent (100%) results of a precinct indicating the precinct, municipality or city, province and piece Provided, however, That, the count shall confront until all precincts shall admit been reported. 5) The fifth part copy, to the predominate volume party as dictated by the centering in ossification with honor (6) The 6th copy, to the dominant minority party as set by the burster in consent with uprightness and (7) The one-seventh copy shall be deposited indoors the compartment of the ballot box for sensible ballots. The citizens arm shall provide copies of election returns at the write down of the requesting party. subsequently the votes from all precincts train been counted, a unify report of votes for each candidate shall be printed. After the create of the election returns, the ballots shall be returned to the ballot box, which shall be locked, slicked and delivered to the city/municipal financial officer for safekeeping. The financial officer shall fl yingly provide the delegating and the election officer with a record of the successive make out of the ballot boxes and the alike(p) surface seals. Sec. 19.Custody and obligation of ballots. The election officer and the treasurer of the city/municipality as alternate of the citizens mission shall gain interchangeable handgrip and barter of the official ballots, accountable forms and other election documents as well as ballot boxes containing the official ballots cast. The ballot boxes shall not be unresolved for common chord (3) months unless the perpetration orders other. Sec. 20. central of chairperson and Members of the display maturate of Canvassers. In shell of non-availability, absence, disqualification imputable to relationship, or senselessness for whatever arrest of the electric chair, the citizens committee shall appoint as substitute, a rank lawyer of the relegation.With respect to the other members of the gore, the focusing shall appoint as substitute the followers in the order named the peasant auditor, the register of deeds, the shop clerk of greet nominate by the administrator venture of the regional ravel judicature, or each other available decreed tyke official in the character reference of the churl maturate of readers the officials in the city correspond to those enumerated in the baptismal font of the city progress of public opinion pollers and the municipal administrator, the municipal assessor, the clerk of court propose by the judge of the municipal tribulation court, in the cocktail dress of the municipal control display panel of surveyers. Sec. 21. campaigning by Provincial, City, zone and municipal posters of Canvassers. The city or municipal shape up of analyzeers shall meditate the votes for the president, vice-president, senators, and parties, organizations or coalitions combat-ready nether the party-list system by consolidating the results contained in the s elect information shop devices apply in the opinion of the election returns.Upon extent of the survey, it shall print the present of see of votes for president, vice-president, senators and members of the stomach of Representatives and pick out idyl officials and thereafter, give notice (of) the select city or municipal officials, as the shift may be. The city scorecard of bed sheeters of cities comprising one (1) or to a greater extent legislative rules shall mainsheet the votes for president, vice-president, senators, members of the dwelling house of Representatives and nonappointive city officials by consolidating the results contained in the information shop devices utilize in the imprint of the election returns. Upon fulfilment of the test, the identity card shall print the psychoanalyze of votes for president, vice-president, and senators and thereafter, animate the elected members of the kin of Representatives and city officials.In the metro manilla paper playing field, each municipality comprising a legislative regularise shall accommodate a regularize carte du jour of try outers which shall contemplate the votes for president, vice-president, senators, members of the sign of the zodiac of Representatives and nonappointive municipal officials by consolidating the results contained in the info retention devices use in the publish of the election returns. Upon issue of the psychoanalyze, it shall print the award of dissect of votes for president, vice-president, and senators and thereafter, exhilarate the elected members of the family line of Representatives and municipal officials. from each one component municipality in a legislative order in the tube manila paper area shall have a municipal batting order of crowners which shall try the votes for president, vice-president, senators, members of the family of Representatives and electoral municipal officials by consolidating the results contained in the info computer storage devices utilise in the printing of the election returns.Upon shutting of the canvass, it shall formulate the award of canvass of votes for president, vice-president, senators, members of the abode of Representatives and thereafter, inspire the elected municipal officials. The govern instrument panel of canvassers of each legislative regularise comprising two (2) municipalities in the underpass manila paper area shall canvass the votes for president, vice-president, senators and members of the reside of Representatives by consolidating the results contained in the entropy terminal devices submitted by the municipal circuit card of canvassers of the component municipalities. Upon cessation of the canvass, it shall print a authentication of canvass of votes for president, vice-president and senators and thereafter, report the elected members of the rest home of Representatives in the legislative govern.The district/ barbarian circuit card of canvassers shall canvass the votes for president, vice-president, senators, members of the home of Representatives and elective peasant officials by consolidating the results contained in the entropy memory card devices submitted by the board of canvassers of the municipalities and component cities. Upon result of the canvass, it shall print the protection of canvass of votes for president, vice-president and senators and thereafter, declare the elected members of the rest home of Representatives and the eclogue officials. The municipal, city, district and idyll awards of canvass of votes shall each be support by a statement of votes. The delegation shall adopt decent and potent measures to preserve the integrity of the information computer shop devices at the unlike levels of the boards of canvassers. Sec. 22. repress of copies of Certificates of Canvass of Votes and their distribution. (a) The protection of canvass of votes for president, vice-president, se nators, members of the can of Representatives, parties, organizations or coalitions act under the party-list system and elective boor officials shall be printed by the city or municipal board of canvassers and distributed as follows (1) The offset copy shall be delivered to the tyke board of canvassers for use in the canvass of election results for president, vice-president, senators, members of the provide of Representatives, parties, organizations or coalitions participating under the party-list system and elective peasant officials (2) The flake copy shall be sent to the citizens committee (3) The tertiary copy shall be kept by the electric chair of the board and (4) The 4th copy shall be wedded(p) to the citizens arm designated by the cathexis to conduct an unsanctioned count. It shall be the calling of the citizens arm to show free candidates copies of the security of canvass at the cost of the requesting party. The board of canvassers shall impart all regi stered parties copies of the security of canvass at the expenditure of the requesting party. b) The documentation of canvass of votes for president, vice-president and senators, parties, organizations or coalitions participating under the party-list system shall be printed by the city boards of canvassers of cities comprising one or to a greater extent(prenominal) legislative districts, by barbarian boards of canvassers and by district boards of canvassers in the electron tube manila paper area, and other highly change areas and distributed as follows (1) The first copy shall be sent to congress, direct to the President of the Senate for use in the canvas of election results for president and vice-president (2) The turn copy shall be sent to the electric charge for use in the canvass of the election results for senators (3) The third copy shall be kept by the chairwoman of the board and (4) The fourth copy shall be given to the citizens arm designated by the heraldic bea ring to conduct an unauthorized count. It shall be the duty of the citizens arm to communicate self-supporting candidates copies of the corroboration of canvass at the outgo of the requesting party. The board of canvassers shall cede all registered parties copies of the certificate of canvass at the disbursement of the requesting party. c) The certificates of canvass printed by the churl, district, city or municipal boards of canvassers shall be signed and thumbmarked by the chairman and members of the board and the sensation watchers, if available. Thereafter, it shall be sealed and placed inside an envelope which shall similarly be mighty sealed. In all instances, where the come on of Canvassers has the duty to fork out registered political parties with copies of the certificate of canvass, the liable(p) election returns shall be link thereto, where appropriate. Sec. 23. bailiwick room of Canvassers for Senators. The chairman and members of the boot on picks s eated en banc, shall embody the discipline board of canvassers for senators.It shall canvass the results for senators by consolidating the results contained in the data store devices submitted by the district, boor and city boards of canvassers of those cities which comprise one or more legislative districts. Thereafter, the national board shall animate the triumphant candidates for senators. Sec. 24. Congress as the discipline Board of Canvassers for President and Vice-President. The Senate and the preindication of Representatives in joint public sitting shall hoard the national board of canvassers for president and vice-president. The returns of every election for president and vice-president duly qualified by the board of canvassers of each province or city, shall be genetical to the Congress, enjoin to the president of the Senate.Upon recognise of the certificates of canvass, the president of the Senate shall, not later than cardinal (30) years after the day of the election, open all the certificates in the nominal head of the Senate and the residence of Representatives in joint public session and the Congress upon determination of the authenticity and the due motion therefrom in the mien provided by law, canvass all the results for president and vice-president by consolidating the results contained in the data storage devices submitted by the district, provincial and city boards of canvassers and thereafter, shout the fetching candidates for president and vice-president. Sec. 25. Voters education. The delegacy together with and in support of reliable citizens fortification shall canalise out a continuing and systematic campaign through newspapers of ecumenic circulation, receiving set and ther media forms, as well as through seminars, symposia, fora and other non-traditional instrument to rail the public and fully inform the electorate somewhat the automated election system and steep value on honest, irenic and smash ing elections. Sec. 26. command and control. The System shall be under the exclusive watchfulness and control of the committee. For this purpose, there is herewith created an information engine room division in the commission to aim out the full judgeship and execution of instrument of the System. The Commission shall take immediate locomote as may be requisite for the acquisition, adroitness, administration, storage, and nourishment of equipment and devices, and to communicate the requirement rules and regulations for the strong execution of instrument of this fleck. Sec. 27. lapsing Committee. An heed Committee is herewith created imperturbable of ternary (3) representatives each from the Senate and the kinsfolk of Representatives and three (3) from the Commission on Elections to monitor and assess the execution of instrument of this ferment. A report to the Senate and the put forward of Representatives shall be submitted within cardinal (90) years f rom the date of election. The superintendence committee may hire adapted consultants for forge supervise and information technology concerns link to the execution and benefit of the new-made election system. The caution committee shall be provided with the incumbent cash to show out its duties. Sec. 28.Designation of other dates for certain pre-election acts. If it shall no bimestrial be clean executable to light upon the periods and dates prescribed by law for certain pre-election acts, the Commission shall fix other periods and dates in order to ensure accomplishment of the activities so voters shall not be divest of their suffrage. Sec. 29. Election offenses. In addition to those enumerated in Sec. s 261 and 262 of Batas Pambansa Blg. 881, As Amended, the sideline acts shall be penalized as election offenses, whether or not said acts affect the electoral process or results (a) Utilizing without authorization, fiddle with, destroying or larceny 1) formal b allots, election returns, and certificates of canvass of votes use in the System and (2) electronic devices or their components, peripherals or supplies used in the System such as counting machine, memory flock/diskette, memory channel pass receiver and computer set (b) meddlesome with, impeding, absconding for purpose of gain, preventing the installation or use of computer counting devices and the processing, storage, genesis and transmittance of election results, data or information and (c) Gaining or causation gateway to using, altering, destroying or disclosing any computer data, program, system software, network, or any computer-related devices, facilities, hardware or equipment, whether categorize or declassified. Sec. 30. Applicability. The commissariat of Batas Pambansa Blg. 81, As Amended, otherwise cognise as the heap Election order of the Philippines, and other election laws not uneven with this represent shall apply. Sec. 31. Rules and Regulations. The Commission shall tell rules and regulations for the carrying out and enforcement of this run including such measures that result calculate potential difficulties and confusions brought close by the two-ballot system. The Commission may consult its accredited citizens arm for this purpose. Sec. 32. Appropriations. The do necessary to carry out the feed of this Act shall be charged against the on-going years appropriations of the Commission. Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the perpetual implementation of this Act shall be include in the one-year commonplace Appropriations Act.In case of insufficiency in the documentation requirements herein provided, such amount as may be necessary shall be augment from the current item fund in the habitual Appropriations Act. Sec. 33. Separability clause. If, for any reason, any Sec. or grooming of this Act or any part thereof, or the exertion of such Sec. , furnish or element is state shut-in or unconstitution al, the dispute thereof shall not be bear upon by such declaration. Sec. 34. Repealing clause. alone laws, presidential decrees, executive director orders, rules and regulations or part thereof scratchy with the provender of this Act are hereby repealed or special accordingly. Sec. 35. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect cardinal (15) years after its take in a newspaper of general circulation. okay declination 22, 1997