I cannot say enough in favor of the petition by various groups to finally junk the precinct count optical scan or PCOS machines, which Smartmatic, the Venezuelan company, had used, on behalf of the Commission on Elections, to rig the 2010 and 2013 elections, and which the Comelec would like to use again, if we are going to have elections in 2016. This move is absolutely necessary, but not enough. We must get rid of the PCOS machines, but we must first and above all get rid of our diseased political system and the Comelec itself. It’s the only way to reclaim our sovereign right as a free people to choose our own leaders in clean, honest, credible and hopefully intelligent and worthwhile elections. Without any doubt, the PCOS has been thoroughly corrupted. But it is merely a tool, and the corrupting of this tool originates from a brain. That diseased brain is the Comelec. It was the Comelec that illegally put the elections in the hands of Smartmatic in 2010 and 2013, in derogation of its exclusive constitutional mandate, and it was the Comelec that removed all the safety features and accuracy mechanisms of the PCOS machines, in violation of law, without being subjected to any legal sanctions.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 01:49:06 +0000
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