THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has given its go-signal to use some 5,000 to 10,000 units of the original 82,000 old Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) counting machines to supplement the 93,997 units of brand-new Optical Mark Readers (OMRs) for use in the 2016 elections.

Commissioner Rowena Guanzon, co-chairman of Task Force PCOS, disclosed on Tuesday that as approved by the Comelec en banc, the several thousands of PCOS machines would be used primarily by persons with disability and for local absentee voting.

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