Drop the PCOS machines or have an ‘exception process’

AS experts, like our columnist Lito Averia, have been explaining for years now, the Comelec’s very expensive PCOS machines rejected hundreds of thousands of ballots that were not counted manually and recorded.

This means that hundreds of thousands of voters were disenfranchised--their votes were never counted, they were in a sense deprived of life by the PCOS machines.