PCOS didn’t do us any good

I can understand that the public in general would believe so. I can even understand that politicians would believe so as well, even if it is their responsibility to find out what is true and what is not. But I cannot understand, and find it unforgivable, that Comelec officials, who administer the country’s elections,would believe that it was the use of PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) in the last two elections that shortened the election process from some six weeks when it was pure manual, down to one week or so.

Let me explain. In the past, when elections were purely manual, the timelines were as follows: