A group of IT experts took up Smartmatic Philippines President Cesar Flores on his challenge for them to seek the help of the Supreme Court (SC) in stopping the telecommunications firm from bidding for procurement of electronic poll machines.

Nelson Celis, IT expert and spokesman for Automated Election System (AES) Watch, on Thursday stood firm that they will ask the High Court to blacklist Smartmatic Philippines from joining the bidding for the acquisition of additional 23,000 automated election systems (AESs) for the 2016 polls.

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