More Pinoys realize they lack info on automation—survey

More Filipinos are beginning to realize that they don’t know enough about automated elections, pollster Pulse Asia revealed on Wednesday, nearly four months before the May 10 elections.

Seven out of 10 Filipinos (71 percent) said they have little to no knowledge at all about how poll automation works, an increase of 10 percentage points from last October’s 61 percent, the pollster said. (See: 6 out of 10 Pinoys remain clueless about automation – Pulse Asia)

Pulse Asia cited results of a survey held from January 22 to 26 this year involving 1,800 registered voters.

The number of Filipinos who remain clueless about automation is still the largest in socioeconomic class E (very poor), where three out of 10 respondents said they have no knowledge at all regarding the automated polls.

Only two out of 10 respondents said they have sufficient amount of knowledge about automation, while an even smaller number – eight percent of those surveyed – said they have a great deal of knowledge of what will take place during the May polls.


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