The PCOS machines uses a Linux OS, I heard the Smarmatic people say, and yet they refuse to show the public the source code or simply tell us what is up.
Enrile or I think Nograles, or one of them, mentioned that the house should summon an external IT team to study the machines because they say it’s all technical and they couldn’t understand the issues involved, or so they said awhile ago.
The way I understand it, these machines are just glorified counting machines. They don’t seem to be too high tech nor are they too accurate or too fool proof, as evidenced by the random time stamps or the bloated number of registered voters or the other seemingly legitimate issues raised.
BUT: The reason we don’t understand how the PCOS works is not because we have poor IT comprehension skills.
The reason we do not understand how the PCOS works is because they refuse to tell us how it really works.
It reminds me of those crafty people (who aren't particularly smart or distinguished or accomplished) and yet they keep babbling on, using supposed technical terms, to confused and intimidate people into believing they're actually smarter, more distinguished, more accomplished or worth more than they actually are.
The PCOS is not some rocket scientist genius nobel prize winning invention. And, they should top pretending its more complicated than it really is.
Assuming it is an honest system: it should just scan the shaded ballots and tally the votes, yield accurate results, and then print/transmit the results.
It should be as straight forward as that. The fact that it’s not, or the fact that they’re so shady about the details, is completely fishy.
The PCOS vs. the Lotto Machine
I watched Karen Davila interviewing Manoling Morato on ANC. Given, he tends to be a weird character that doesn’t seem to inspired much confidence in me (or anyone I know). However, he does raise an interesting point.
He says that the lotto machines could actually be used to conduct the elections, we have thousands of them and he claims they are the “most foolproof machine”.
This may sound like an exaggeration but when you think about it: 20-30 million people bet on the lotto everyday and they are able to draw out the winner in just 25 minutes, figure out what the person’s name is and which outlet he/she made the bet in. And, think about it, it probably can’t be too unsecured seeing as there would be enough motivation for any koala person to hack the system and gain millions.
The point is it doesn't seem beyond our capabilities to commission/purchase an automated system that is efficient, credible and "fool proof", that can handle millions of entries within a time schedule.
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