ELECTION watchdogs will be giving a going away “present” to Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. and two commissioners who will be retiring today—a petition seeking to stop the implementation of the contract awarded to Smartmatic.
Individual convenors and members of the citizens’ election watchdog Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) will file before the Supreme Court (SC) a petition for certiorari and prohibition with preliminary injunction nullifying Comelec Resolution 9922, which virtually awards--without public bidding--to Smartmatic-TIM the P1.2-billion plus contracts for the “diagnostics, repair and refurbishment” of 80,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines.
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