The Citizens for Clean and Credible Elections (C3E) on Monday formally asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to blacklist Smartmatic from participating in all election-related activities in the country.

In a 33-page petition, the C3E asked the Comelec’s Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) to blacklist Smartmatic and its local partner, Total Information Management Corp. (TIMC), from joining the bidding for the procurement of 23,000 automated election systems (AESs) to be used in the 2016 presidential elections.

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