PCOS machines are voting machines used in the Philippines. The acronyms stands for Precinct Count Optical Scan.
They are mentioned in the Wikileaks trove of information.
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Two Liberal Party (LP) stalwarts have supported the proposal of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile to create a joint technical committee that would examine audit logs of compact flash cards and precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
Reps. Roilo Golez of Paranaque and Joseph Abaya of Cavite said the move would allow Congress, which now sits as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) for the president and vice president, to devote its time to tabulating the votes for the country’s two highest posts.
“This is an opportunity for Congress to ensure the integrity of our
elections, and to ensure the completeness of the certificates of canvass we will tally,” Abaya said. “We welcome and support the proposal to create a technical committee to examine the CF cards.”
Golez also moved for the creation of the special tabulating body in a bid to make the job of the NBOC “easier and more accurate.”
“We are talking of only 76, 000 election returns (ERs) equivalent to
76,000 PCOS machines. We have done this exercise in the party and with a small group we are able to tabulate something like 15 COCs a day, tabulating all the ERs,” he said.
“So if we constitute a committee on tabulators, maybe harnessing
tabulators coming from the Senate and the House, we can do it at a much faster rate. We can probably do as many as 30 while we are going over the COCs coming from overseas,” he said.
“We can start with the tabulation so that we can do away with all this uncertainty and with all this speculation,” he added.
Abaya, LP secretary-general, welcomed the move, as it would give the joint Congress more time to focus on the canvassing of votes cast for the presidential and vice presidential races.
Enrile said the technical working group is necessary to scrutinize CF
cards and the PCOS machines. A technical review, according to him, could be done simultaneousl y with the canvassing of the presidential and vice-presidential votes.
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Report by Carolyn O. Arguillas: “Crushing the Communist Insurgency by June 30, 2010: ‘That’s a Political Statement'” – MindaNews
Tuesday June 29, 2010 10:16:25 GMT
Four days before the June 30, 2010 deadline of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to “crush the communist insurgency,” the chief of the Philippine Army’s newest, largest and most heavily-engaged division
acknowledged that “insurgency can be solved only if we address it at its roots.”
Among the issues that would challenge the legality of the election is the lack of signatures in the statement of votes transmitted by the PCOS machines.
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