As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) prepares to open the bidding for 40,000 new automated counting machines for the 2016 presidential polls, a group of IT experts are determined to stop the supplier of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) system from joining the bid.

The AES (Automated Election System) Watch has brought its campaign to blacklist PCOS supplier Smartmatic to the Senate. In a letter to Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd, chairman of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms, Nelson Celis, AES Watch spokesperson, faulted Smartmatic for not complying with the Request for Proposal (RFP) during the bidding.

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