“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” wrote Shakespeare in his play “Romeo and Juliet.”

And so has the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) renamed the PCOS or Precinct Count Optical Scan VCM or Vote Counting Machine. Paraphrasing Shakespeare: “PCOS by any other name would smell as putrid.” It would still be injurious to the Filipino’s right of suffrage.

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