We must abolish the Comelec

I cannot say enough in favor of the petition by various groups to finally junk the precinct count optical scan or PCOS machines, which Smartmatic, the Venezuelan company, had used, on behalf of the Commission on Elections, to rig the 2010 and 2013 elections, and which the Comelec would like to use again, if we are going to have elections in 2016.

This move is absolutely necessary, but not enough. We must get rid of the PCOS machines, but we must first and above all get rid of our diseased political system and the Comelec itself. It’s the only way to reclaim our sovereign right as a free people to choose our own leaders in clean, honest, credible and hopefully intelligent and worthwhile elections.