PCOS MACHINE FULL SPECIFICATION 2013 ELECTION

This is my 2nd post about PCOS Machine. Yesterday i share what are the
PCOS Machines Worst Case Scenarios and  Today let me share about the full specs of this PCOS machines for you to know why governments choose and confident to use this as a voting machine for upcoming Election in the Philippines on May 13, 2013.

MATERIALS
PCOS physical enclosure is made up of injected molded plastic. Its base plate is produced from aluminum sheet from aluminum sheet stock. This makes its robust, lightweight, and of high stiffness.

ENTRY BALLOT SLOT
The ballot entry slot is a narrow paper tray in the front slot where ballots are inserted. It is a tray narrow enough for the paper to enter and exit the machine straight manners.

ADMINISTRATOR ACCESS COMPARTMENT INPUT
The administrator compartment input is located in the front left side of the PCOS machine. It contains the removable write-protected back up memory card. It has the same feature as that of the poll worker access compartment input.

POLL WORKER ACCESS COMPARTMENT INPUT
The poll worker compartment input is located in the front right side of the PCOS machine. It contains the removable memory card. It is an opening or door furnished with a mechanism to allow necessary clearance to all ports and peripherals when opened. It opens outwards and clicks into correct position when closed.

TRANSMISSION PORT
The Transmission port is an interface on the right side of the PCOS machine. It is used for connecting modem/cellular device for result transmission.

PRINTER COMPARTMENT
The Printer compartment is one of the three opening or door located on top of the machine. It is furnished when a mechanism to allow necessary clearance to all ports and peripherals when opened. It opens outwards and clicks into correct position closed.

LCD SCREEN WITH COUNTER
The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen is white background, 5.7" diagonal viewing area with a built-in touch screen panel for administration purposes.

iBUTTON SECURITY KEY
The iButton used to access the administrative options or to change the mode of operation of the machine such as for the open voting and rezero.

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About PCOS Machines Worst Case Scenarios

Commission on Election (COMELEC) decides to use PCOS Machine than to the older voting processes for the upcoming 2013 Government Elections here in the Philippines that will happen on May 13.

But before that if you want to know about PCOS specs and features you can visit here:

PCOS MACHINE FULL SPECIFICATIONS

Now let me discuss why and what are the worst case scenarios and advance technology to avoid this scenarios that could be possibly happen.  I will list all i learn about the PCOS MACHINE.

STOLEN PCOS MACHINES
If someone steals a PCOS machine, it can easily be traced using the serial number and the serves will not accept any signal from those machines.

POWER INTERRUPTION
The PCOS Machine has a standby battery in case of a brown out.

NO CELLPHONE SIGNAL
Since PCOS relies on cellphone reception, it cannot transmit data in remote areas. However, it can do this using satellite transmission.
If that does not work, the PCOS technician can manually bring the memory card to the municipal server.

MALFUNCTIONING PCOS AND SHORTAGE
A shortage of PCOS  machines is unlikely to happen since they are numbered and serialized for each precinct. However, there are back-up PCOS machines if there is a malfunctioning machine.

PCOS MACHINES ARE SECURE, PEOPLE MIGHT NOT
The makers of PCOS Machines and its software's placed many security measures to ensure the credibility of the elections. However, no matter how secure our election may be, it is still the people who will determine who will be the next President, Senators or Mayor.

HACKERS AND STEALING OF DATA FROM MEMORY CARD OR WIRELESS
If there is a very clever person who can get his hands on the data, he stills needs to crack the 256-bit encryption place on the data. It's likely having a doc x file and you only have Microsoft Word 2003. No matter how you do it, you can't open the file. In this case, you need much more than MS Word 2007 to read tally of votes.

About the Author :

is a full time Tech Blogger | Web Designer, Founder and Editor in Chief of INFOTECHMAESTRO