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Comelec fails to get source code anew

PCOS machine. Photo by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES.
PCOS machine. Photo by ARTHA KIRA PAREDES.

By MIKHA FLORES

THE Commission on Elections has set for Monday its final meeting with Dominion Voting Systems after it failed anew to persuade the company to release the source code for the automated machines to be used in the May 13 elections.

Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes was supposed to announce Friday whether Dominion’s source code for the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines will be released to the poll body for review by political parties and interested groups.

But lawyers representing Dominion and Smartmatic remained non-committal during a meeting on Thursday night and told the Comelec they still have to talk with their principals abroad before they can agree on anything, he said. They will meet again Monday night, he added.

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