Comelec to start voters' education drive

By Sheila Crisostomo (The Philippine Star)

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will begin next month the road show demonstration of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines across the country, Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal said yesterday.

“We’re going to go down to the grassroots level. What we’re doing is we’re working with civic organizations and our regional offices for them to conduct a separate voters’ education within their particular area everyday in the next few months, and they have to use the machines for this purpose,” said Larrazabal.

The Comelec will use the 20 PCOS machines delivered by Smartmatic International Corp.-Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) a few weeks ago in the road show demonstration.

Each of the country’s 16 regions will have one unit of PCOS machine except for Metro Manila, where five machines may be used