Describing as “horrible” the dismissal of a cyber crime case filed against technology provider Smartmatic and the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the camp of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday said they will seek reversal of the decision before the Department of Justice. “For us, the issue of the complaint was simple–were Comelec and Smartmatic authorized to change the system at the height of the transmission of votes on May 9, 2016? The same should have been afforded to establish that such a forbidden act of ‘tweaking’ was indeed undertaken with malicious intent,” Rodriguez said. He added that the panel prosecutors, however, looked the other way, took the defense of Smartmatic and Comelec personnel at face value and completely downplayed the admissions on the unauthorized change. Rodriguez said the former senator will not take it sitting down.

Source: Manila Times November 03, 2016 09:02 UTC