MANILA Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo on Friday rejected the use of the discredited precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in the 2016 presidential elections saying he prefers to have a fully transparent manual counting of votes.

“What’s important is transparency, not quickness [in the counting of votes]. Let’s see to it that they will not steal the people’s will,” Pabillo said during yesterday’s launching of “Huwag Kang Magnakaw” campaign, the Church’s non-partisan advocacy for an honest, truthful and authentic election and leadership in government anchored on God’s Seventh Commandment.

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