The two companies vying for the contract to provide polling machines for the 2016 elections continued to trade barbs as the new year opened.

Indra Sistemas and Smartmatic spent most of 2014 hurling missives at each other as they fight to win the bidding to provide the Commission on Elections (Comelec) with 23,000 optical mark readers (OMRs) to supplement the old Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to be used in next year’s elections.

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