The Commission on Elections (Comelec) can use technology to undermine every Filipino’s right to vote with the aid of a hacked counting machine, and this is the surest way to kill democracy in the country.

Under this rallying cry, the Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch), a broad citizens’ election watchdog of 40-plus affiliated organizations, on Wednesday asked Congress to conduct a demonstration to show that Comelec’s Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) voting system can be hacked.