Another former election official has joined the call for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to bid out the contract for the repair of 80,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines that will be recycled for the 2016 elections.

Former Comelec commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal on Friday urged the poll body to drop its plan for a negotiated deal with the Smartmatic, who had supplied the PCOS machines in the past two elections.

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