DepEd Secretary Jesli Lapus said that over half a million teachers were not yet ready for the poll automation of elections in 2010. He said that they were not yet informed by COMELEC regarding the procedures of the full automated elections. He also added that the techers have not yet receiving their allowances from the previous elections last 2007. If the project would be possible, it will cost less time and workload as the election results can now be seen within the day compared to the manual election system before.