‘Stop transfer of PCOS machines’

MANILA, Philippines - A poll watchdog has urged the Supreme Court to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from transferring the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines and ballot boxes used in the last elections from its warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna to an undisclosed place.

The Automated Election System Watch led by former Comelec commissioner Gus Lagman asked the high court to issue a temporary restraining order directing the poll body “to preserve and safeguard the integrity of the PCOS machines, ballot boxes, their contents and keys, list of voters with voting records, books of voters and other documents and paraphernalia.”