SMARTMATIC must be investigated and prosecuted. For one reason or another, it has behaved as if Lucifer himself was wielding this UK-backed Venezuelan company’s power over our Commission on Elections and the entire Filipino electorate.

Ever since it became the veritable operator of our election system in 2010, it has raked in scores of billions while making a mess of our election process. Along the way, good, responsible lower officials and ordinary citizens have complained of Smartmatic’s mistakes and deliberate irregularities in its handling of our election system. But the complaints were ignored and the irregularities were found to be “okay” by Comelec commissioners, our high officials and even some of our courts.