Alex Magno: Over the next few weeks, we will be rushing headlong into the political season. The vital 2016 presidential contest looms on the horizon. But the preparations for the conduct of the polls could be mired in court battles. The lawyer for Indra Systems SA, a company trying to sell automated elections equipment to the Comelec, warns of a prolonged legal tangle that could derail preparations for the next polls. His company is challenging the possible award of the contract for supplemental PCOS machines to Smartmatic, the firm that supplied the original batch of such machines used in the 2010 and 2013 polls. Indra is basically questioning Smartmatic’s claim that it owns the technology used in the present automated elections set-up. Unless that claim is debunked, Smartmatic will have a firm grip on supplying our equipment needs. philstar/opinion/2015/01/03/1408938/court-battle
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:37:40 +0000
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