Lucao elementary pupils try automated voting system
ABOUT 900 pupils at Lucao Elementary School in Dagupan City were given the privilege to experience automated voting system when they elected their officers for the Supreme Pupil Government (SPG) for the school year 2020-2021 on Feb. 14.
Gary Desoloc, school principal, said it was part of a nationwide simultaneous conduct of SPG election that made the pupils experience voting via computers for the first time instead of the usual manual ballot voting system.
Pupil-voters clicked the pictures with the name of the candidates on six laptops.
Voters were from Grades 1 to 5 and voted for their president, vice president, secretary and treasurer in the next school year.
The election was held from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and also used indelible ink “to make the student-voter experience voting during regular elections in the country.”
A board of election canvassers composed of students was also organized with guidance from teachers, based from Department of Education memorandum.
Two groups of candidates did a “room-to-room campaign,” after they were introduced during their flag-raising ceremony.
The results were uploaded as soon as the voting was over. (PhilStar Wire Service/ECV)
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