We totally agree with the experts, like the members of the Philippine Computer Society. Smartmatic, for having violated the Comelec’s own rules--and other Philippine laws, is not eligible to have anything further to do with our elections.

Yet, it was allowed to bid for the repair and refurbishing of the PCOS machines--the use of which made a pile of dung of the 2010 and 2013 elections--for use in 2016. Smartmatic has won the bidding.

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