The latest Comelec contract that Smartmatic bagged is for the procurement of secure electronic transmission services for the 2022 polls. PHVote WeDecide
As winning bidder, Smartmatic is required to provide service for"secure connectivity and transmission of election results" in 2022, based on thePreviously, Smartmatic secured the following contracts for the 2022 polls:for the procurement of an automated election softwareAside from the said four projects, Smartmatic was also the only firm to purchase bidding documents for the project to lease 10,000 VCMs, but Smartmatic did not submit a proposal to the poll body in September, saying...
Election irregularities, the most recent in 2019, have damaged the credibility of Smartmatic. These include a delayed transmission of election results to the transparency server, now infamously known as theFollowing the 2019 elections, President Rodrigo Duterte urged the Comelec to junk Smartmatic's VCMs and"look for a new one that is free of fraud."
However, despite criticisms of Smartmatic, random manual audits of the 2016 and 2019 elections – where independent auditors manually tallied votes and compared the results with machine tallies – yielded an accuracy rate of over 99%. Defenders of Smartmatic have pointed out, too, that its machines were used in the 2016 polls that elected Duterte, and the midterm elections three years later that Duterte’s allies won by a landslide.
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