Comelec failed to disclose ‘secret backdoor’ in PCOS machines

Oversight correction, cost benefit analysis and what to do with PCOS machines to avoid fraud and warehousing costs were tackled at the Balitaan sa Hotel Rembrandt recently.

Labor leader Dave Diwa, former Comelec Commissioner Gus Lagman, Maricor Akol of C3E and AES Watch said that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) failed to disclose that its PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machines had console ports or secret backdoors which anyone could open without the need for passwords to gain control of the said machines and be used for vote manipulation.