The Smartmatic-PCOS Reign must end

AS expected, the Commission on Elections rejected the petition of Government Watch, a non-governmental organization that monitors anomalies, for the Comelec to desist from employing the Smartmatic Automated Election System (that uses the Precinct Count Optical Scan machines) in the 2016 election.

Government Watch, headed by industrialist and consumer welfare advocate Raul Conception, had urged the Comelec to abandon its plan to use the old PCOS machines in the 2016 polls because the Venezuelan corporation’s AES system and the machines are not credible. Government Watch requests the Comelec to instead employ an entirely new Automated Election System or AES.