Comelec likely to ditch old PCOS – Pimentel

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) is likely to ditch the 82,000 old precinct court optical scan (PCOS) machines and instead use brand new units that will cost the government more than P8 billion, the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Automated Election System (JCOC-AES) learned Thursday.

Senator Aquilino Pimentel 3rd, chairman of the JCOC-AES, explained that based on the statements of Comelec officials during the panel hearing, the poll body may resort to using the PCOS technology in next year’s national polling.