A lawmaker on Wednesday said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has no legal basis to grant Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) the P300-million examination procedure of 82,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines and the poll body should not proceed with it.

Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd, chairman of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms, noted that the decision of the poll body to allow Smartmatic to conduct the examination of the PCOS machines without a public bidding goes against the procurement law.

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