Poll lawyer says Smartmatic, other suppliers should compensate gov’t for election glitches 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Leslie Ann AquinoA poll lawyer said technology provider Smartmatic and other suppliers in the recent May 13 midterm polls should compensate the government for damages for the glitches that occurred which caused delays in the conduct of the 2019 elections. The Comelec, he said should also be asked why it had to spend P1.16 billion for the Voter Registration Verification System (VRVS) when this was only intended as “pilot-test” project. However, Macalintal believed it was too “premature” for President Duterte to condemn Smartmatic by asking Comelec to “dispose of its Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) and look for another technology that would be free of fraud” just because of some technical glitches and VCMs malfunctioning. The poll lawyer suggested to Duterte that he should wait for the outcome of certain election protest cases filed by some losing candidates in the last election where the ballots will be physically counted and the results of the physical recount compared with the VCM’s voting results.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 09, 2019 08:48 UTC