A PCOS voting machine is intialized in Cantugas, Mainit, Surigao del Norte, Mindanao
Automated voting machines (PCOS) were chosen to reduce the possibilities of fraud and provide secrecy for the voters and the voting process. The PCOS machines, created by SmartMatic, had some problems; their use has been challenged by the People's International Observers Mission and other advocacy groups.
Photo by Nancy Eng MacNeill, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.