ELECTION watchdog Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) on Monday asked the Supreme Court to junk the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) sweetheart deal with Smartmatic-Total Information Management (Smartmatic-TIM).
The petitioners said the poll body’s P1.2 billion contract with Smartmatic-TIM for the diagnostics, repair and refurbishment of 80,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines that will be reused in the 2016 elections is unconstitutional and should be scrapped.
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