Reform and Abolition: The Philippine Party-list System 199 court rulings toothless as in the recycling of pork barrel in veiled forms. xxx…Unless these breaches of law, system deciencies, and other aws are immediately rectied we will once more witness automation failures in May 2016 as a result of which results will be deemed unreliable and incredible. CenPEG added: xxx...Election maas – as reported in the media - continue to control the whole election management process in the country. Where else can we see bidding rules and decisions quickly overturned at the mere whimper of a favored vendor? Immediate action and corrective measures cannot be expected in an election procedure where the authorities mandated to ensure fair and accurate elections have shown neither scientic competence – as poll modernization requires - nor legal compliance to protect the citizens' right to vote. Our elections are forever doomed when the impunity of breaching the law reigns, when greed and corruption rule in the choice of technology, and when machines decide the vote regardless of system vulnerabilities that allow manipulation. ...Both Congress and Comelec have failed to allow accountability to fall on those who violate the law. Unless accountability is enforced the bigger is the indicator that our election system has been hijacked by foreign monopoly which is a constitutional issue. In the last few months, AES Watch through the Filipino IT for Election (FIT4E) movement has encouraged the use of Filipino scientic ingenuity to design our own election technology. By the public and media demonstration of Filipino alternative technology solutions, we have proven that the Filipino can do it and that systems can be designed compliant with RA 9369 or the election automation law particularly the minimum system requirements such as transparency, among other system features. Condemnable, however, is the bias shown by election decision makers in choosing foreign technology that costs billions of taxpayer's money over Filipino systems that are cheaper by several notches! And this is not only because of the anti-Filipino and anti-Filipino inventor culture of Philippine authorities that values anything foreign as good investment while anything that is local is unreliable – to cite some Comelec ofcials and Smartmatic, itself an unlawful act of internal meddling. …backed by countless studies and lessons here and in many countries, we say the PCOS supplied by the sham supplier, 100% foreign-owned SmartmaticTIM will never count the votes right in the 2016 elections. It is high time we say no to non-compliance which breeds conditions for criminal acts of fraud to continue and uphold democratic election instead of prots. The political elites constitute the informal but powerful structures that lord