{"id":40287,"date":"2015-01-29T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40287"},"modified":"2015-01-29T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:07:25","slug":"sc-asked-to-stop-comelecs-deal-with-smartmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/29\/sc-asked-to-stop-comelecs-deal-with-smartmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"SC asked to stop Comelec&#8217;s deal with Smartmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35047\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35047\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smartmatic PCOS machine (Comrade Mijur \/ Technically Juris on Blogspot)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smartmatic.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smartmatic PCOS machine (Comrade Mijur \/ Technically Juris on Blogspot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Poll watchdog groups asked the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday to stop the Commission on Elections from partnering with Smartmatic Corp. for the automated election system (AES) for next year.<\/p>\n<p>A temporary restraining order seeking to stop Comelec from bidding the contract for 2016 was filed\u00a0by several watchdog groups led by\u00a0Citizens for Clean and Credible Elections (C3E)<\/p>\n<p>Comelec&#8217;s decision denying their petition to blacklist Smartmatic was questioned by the group.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the firm has committed &#8220;misinterpretations&#8221; and violated its obligations under the 2010 AES contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, Smartmatic\u00a0-Total Information Management (TIM) consortium misinterpreted several information on its qualification statements upon its submission of a single largest contract in under the\u00a0Smartmatic International Holdings, B.V. and\/or a subsidiary of the latter, Smartmatic Deployment Corp., and in claiming that Jarltech International Corp. was its subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmartmatic-TIM failed to comply with the provisions of its automation contract with Comelec when it grossly misrepresented that it can provide the Comelec with a customized system, upgrades to and replacement of systems because it was not the owner of the PCOS technology,\u201d read the petition. \u201cSmartmatic was a mere licensee which needed the assistance of Dominion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They added that the 20-percent maximum allowable limit for\u00a0subcontracting arrangements under Republic Act No. 9184, the Government Procurement Reform Act was violated by Smartmatic.<\/p>\n<p>They also accused the elections commission and its\u00a0Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of committing grave abuse of discretion because of dismissing their initial petition to blacklist Smartmatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetitioners have a legitimate right or interest over the propriety of the bidding of contracts by the Comelec and the performance or execution thereof,\u201d read the petition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPetitioners are taxpayers, they are also voters, and members of party-list organizations and cause-oriented groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeedless to stress, petitioners are stakeholders of the previous and\/or upcoming elections. They have all the reasons to cry for justice, fairness and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Poll watchdog groups asked the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday to stop the Commission on Elections from partnering with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}