GUS LAGMAN
IT was June, 2014, when the three IT practitioners who share this column (including this writer) started writing about the issues surrounding the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) automation of the elections–-that’s a total of some 130 articles over a period of two-and-a-half years! They covered the automated election systems (AES) of 2010, 2013 and 2016, which were all PCOS-based (precinct count optical scan), developed and supplied by Smartmatic.