FORMER Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Augusto Lagman has warned that bidding for the procurement of 23,000 automated election systems (AESs) that will be used in the 2016 polls could be rigged in favor of Smartmatic.
Lagman on Tuesday said “something is very fishy” with the insistence of the Comelec to include Smartmatic in the bidding. He added that it is also possible that Smartmatic may win a P1.2-billion negotiated contract for the refurbishment of the old Precinct Count Optical System (PCOS) machines that it had supplied the poll body.
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