Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brilliantes Jr. continues to make fools out of Filipinos by announcing the other day that Smartmatic, Inc. and Dominion Voting Systems have settled their case filed in an arbitration court in the United States that will result in the delivery of the crucial “source code,” the basis for the binary code that runs the ballot-reading machines. What Brilliantes had not announced, sources claim, is that Dominion agreed to the settlement and to release the code after he used Comelec funds–taxpayers money—to pay it the $10 million it had been demanding from Smartmatic.