The Philippines 2010 general election: Voting with the SAES-1800

  1. Fill out your ballot. In each column fill out as many ovals as you are allowed to. This is different per contest, so make sure you read the instructions.
  2. Review your ballot. Before you place your ballot into the optical scanner, double-check your votes.
  3. Cast your vote. Introduce the ballot in the optical scanner. It doesn’t matter if you do it upside down or bottom first
  4. Closure.  At the end of the process, the voting machine will count all the votes cast and produce thirty copies of the election returns.