THE South Korean firm Miru Systems Inc. has vowed to complete by November the delivery of 110,000 automated counting machines (ACMs) to be used in the May 2025 midterm elections, ahead of the December deadline, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia said.
In a statement, the South Korean firm said the early completion of deliveries of 110,000 ACMs was meant to avoid delays in the preparations for the 2025 national and local polls.
“We’ve been very successful in supplying all the requirements on time. Our production is actually ahead of schedule,” said Miru vice president Ken Cho.
Nearly 30,000 ACMs have been delivered thus far, and most of the machines passed the tests conducted by the Comelec.
The Comelec started the hardware acceptance test of the ACMs last Sept 11. The poll body checked the hardware components of the vote counting machines, including their battery mode operation, screen, printer, camera, scanner, audio, USB ports, LED sensors, external keypad, network, and high definition multimedia interface (HDMI).
“For every batch of delivery, five percent of the total number of ACMs will undergo stress test…and that would be random, and if the machines will stand temperature and other external factors,” Garcia added.
