THE pro-Smartmatic Comelec officials, congressmen, top officials of a citizen’s arm, and an election lawyer, have run out of reasons to justify the use of the failed PCOS machines for the 2016 elections. All their arguments against the adoption of the hybrid system, now re-named PATaS, or Precinct Automated Tallying System, (manual voting and precinct-counting; electronic transmission of results and automated canvassing) have been responded to satisfactorily by the advocates of transparent and credible elections.Yes, this is the same system that used to be called TCrES, or Transparent and Credible Election System. By popular clamor, it has been given a new name – PATaS - pun completely intended.

Let’s review what the pro-Smartmatic people used to say.

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