"WHAT we've got here is failure to communicate." The contract also requires the Miru group, the lone bidder, to provide 104,345 ballot boxes, 2,200 laptops and printers, the paper for printing 73.88 million ballots, and a system for verifying ballots. But the watchdog group Democracy Watch raised some valid questions that demand some answers. These findings were corroborated by the Carter Center's international election observers, who allegedly witnessed technical issues in 22 percent of the polling stations they visited, Democracy Watch said. An electronic voting system, after all, isn't just any ordinary automated system.

Source: Manila Times March 03, 2024 04:09 UTC