IN just a little over eight months, we will be holding the midterm senatorial and local elections. I thought that it would be timely to publish, in parts, the monograph that I wrote last year titled, “Understanding the Automated Election System (AES).” In this first part is the foreword that explains the rationale for the writing of such monograph. Succeeding chapters include: 1) The manual elections of old (discussion of this will be skipped as all voters are already familiar with it); 2) problems in the “pure manual system”; 3) the automated election system (AES) used in 2010, 2013, and 2016; 4) problems encountered in the AES; and 5) the recommended alternative system and how it works.