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Comelec: Contingency plans in place for 2025 poll machines
The Philippine Star
|January 10, 2024
Amid lone bidder Miru Systems’ history of problematic vote counting machines abroad, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gave assurance that contingency measures are in place to ensure the successful procurement of automated poll machines for the 2025 midterm elections.
“There is a process in procurement that ensures its success or that there is a contingency,” Comelec spokesman John Rex Laudiangco said.
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