The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will decide within the week whether to award a contract to repair 80,000 old Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to Smartmatic, Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said on Tuesday.

The counting machines were used in the 2010 and 2013 elections.

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