THE Philippine election system, to put it simply, consists of the following parts: 1) the voting and vote counting at the voting precincts; 2) the conveyance of vote counting results to a vote count consolidation center in the city or municipality; 3) the consolidation of vote counts from the various voting precincts within the city or municipality; 4) the conveyance of the consolidated votes in the city or municipality to the provincial consolidation center; 5) the aggregation of the consolidated vote counts from all cities and municipalities within the province; 6) the conveyance of the consolidated votes at the provincial level to the national consolidation center; and finally, 7) the consolidation of the provincial consolidated votes at the national level.
Of course, the counting of votes from overseas as well as local absentee voting and for party-list are considered in the whole process.
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