PCOS machines accurate, Smartmatic insists

Amid calls from IT experts to defer the bidding for the acquisition of additional counting machines by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Smartmatic Asia on Tuesday maintained that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines the company provided for the 2010 and 2013 elections were not defective.

Cesar Flores Zavarce, president of Smartmatic Asia, said the results of the automated elections were audited and the system was “proven to be accurate.”