THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday started testing the precinct-based optical mark reader (OMR) machines behind closed doors, part of the post-qualification process that is required before the poll body awards the P2.503 billion deal to Smartmatic-TIM Corp.
Smartmatic won the contract to lease to the commission 23,000 OMR machines that will be used in next year’s elections. The Comelec intended to use the OMR units to augment the 82,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used in past elections that were also supplied by Smartmatic.
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