Comelec to conduct field tests for AES in 14 areas
2024-Nov-14 16:00
AUTOMATED POLLS. Comelec Chairperson George Garcia monitors the Hardware Acceptance Test and Stress Test for the automated election system (AES) at the Comelec Biñan warehouse in Laguna province on Wednesday (Nov. 13, 2024). Garcia said field tests will be held in 35 sites in 14 areas in the country and overseas. (PNA/Ferdinand G. Patinio)
BIÑAN, Laguna – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will conduct field testing on the automated election system (AES) in 14 areas in the country and overseas on Saturday in preparation for the 2025 mid-term polls.
"All set na ang Comelec (The Comelec is all set) for the field test," he said in a press conference after the Hardware Acceptance Test and Stress Test for the AES held at the Comelec Biñan warehouse in Laguna province on Wednesday.
The testing in 35 sites aims to ensure that the precincts and canvass results will be transmitted through electronic transmission from the polling centers and canvassing places to their authorized destinations.
The field test will be conducted in the following provinces – Antique (3 sites), Batanes (4), Davao del Sur (3), Palawan (4), Tawi-Tawi (4), and in a Special Geographic Area (4).
The testing in the National Capital Region (NCR) will be conducted in Manila (2 sites in Sampaloc), Pateros (2), and Taguig City (2).
For overseas, the areas will be in Asia Pacific – Japan (Tokyo Philippine Embassy); United States of America: (New York Philippine Consulate General and Philippine Embassy, Washington, D.C.); Middle East and Africa: United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi Philippine Embassy); and Europe: Athens (Athens Philippine Embassy).
The poll body said the field test is part of the User Acceptance Test of the Automated Counting Machine (ACM), Consolidation and Canvassing System (CCS), Online Voting and Counting System (OVCS), and transmission hardware and applications.
It is a test on machines, applications, transmission, and procedure that is performed in an actual location where it is going to be used on election day, it added. (PNA)