Reclustering casts doubt on delivery of PCOS units

By Marie Surbano 11/19/2009 As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced a plan to reduce the number of clustered precincts for next year’s automated polls from 80,000 to around 73,000, speculations were rife yesterday that the poll body resorted to re-clustering because Smartmatic International-Total Information Management, the consortium that won the P11.3-billion poll automation project, would not be able to deliver in full the 82,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines needed in 2010 national polls. Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal explained, however, that the reduction in the number of clustered precincts would automatically increase the number of standby PCOS…

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Reclustering casts doubt on delivery of PCOS units

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