MANILA, Philippines --- The country's current provider of vote counting machines (VCMs), Smartmatic, or any supplier for that matter, cannot be banned from future public biddings without any legal basis, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said. Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez pointed this out in a media forum on Friday even after President Rodrigo Duterte asked the poll body to "dispose" Smartmatic and find a new firm that is "free of fraud." READ: Duterte tells Comelec: Dispose Smartmatic Venezuela-based Smartmatic supplied the VCMs for the May 13 midterm elections and three previous automated elections. "Kakailanganin natin ng legal b...
Keep on reading: Comelec can’t ban Smartmatic in future biddings sans legal basis–Jimenez
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