Forced to use PCOS again by ‘time constraints’

IN announcing that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will lease all new PCOS machines from supplier Smartmatic-TIM Corporation, Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista explained that using the existing PCOS machines for the 2016 National and Local Elections was no longer an option mainly because of time constraints.

While agreeing with Chairman Bautista, Commissioner Rowena Guanzon opined, “What is further deplorable in this whole state of affairs is that Smartmatic seemed to have taken advantage of the time constraint the Commission is confronted with.”