This is in lieu of the voter’s receipts printed out by the Smartmatic VCMs that were used in last May’s midterm elections. So Rio might still be in his post when the time comes to supervise a public bidding for the voting technology that will replace what we have bought from Smartmatic. The Random Manual Audit Committee recently announced that its random manual audit of ballots in 711 clustered precincts showed “99.9953 percent” accuracy of the vote count by the Smartmatic machines. He said the companies could supply the computers, which may be used alongside the 97,000 vote counting machines that the Comelec bought last year from Smartmatic. No Philippine company has the election experience required under the automated election law to qualify as full replacement for Smartmatic.

Source: Philippine Star June 13, 2019 16:00 UTC