AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM: Senator Koko Pimentel, chair of the Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation Committee talks with Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes and Commissioner Lucento Tagle before the start of the hearing, Thursday morning. Discussed during the hearing is the report of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), Smart Communications, Inc. and Globe Telecom on the transmission of the election results during the 2010 and 2013 National and Local elections. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/ August 28, 2014)