THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has directed technology provider Smartmatic Corp. to start the production of 23,000 Optical Mark Reader (OMR) machines to be used in next year’s elections. The 23,000 OMRs is part of the 93,997 units of counting machines that the poll body will lease in 2016.
The “notice to proceed” also paved the way for the signing on Friday of the P35 million contract between the Comelec and SLI Global Solutions for the testing and review of the source code, a voting software program customized for Philippine elections that will be installed on the OMR machines.
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