As expected, it hasn’t taken long since the elections for outraged Filipinos to sue Smartmatic for negligence, incompetence, corruption, and unethical behavior, violating various legislations. René Azurin argues:
Accused by the PCS of violating the Anti-Corruption and Corrupt Practices Act (RA 3019), the 1987 Constitution (Article XI, Section 1), the Government Procurement Reform Act (RA 9184), the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials, and the Automated Election System Act (RA 9369) were José Melo, Gregorio Larrazabal, René Sarmiento, Nicodemo Ferrer, Armando Velasco, Elías Yusoph, Lucenito Tagle, José Tolentino, Ester Roxas, and James Jimenez from Comelec; Anthony Roxas-Chua III, Timoteo Diaz De Rivera, and Denis Villorente from the Comelec Technical Evaluation Committee; César Flores and Heider García from Smartmatic; and Jose Mari Antu_ez and Nilo Cruz from TIM. The defendants, according to the complaint, were guilty of “gross negligence and incompetence” and “committed a serious abuse of discretion that resulted in ‘corrupt practices’ and ‘unethical conduct’.”
More here. Thus, another election where Smartmatic was hired under suspicious and seemingly illegal circumstances is mired in unreliable results, lack of transparency, and corruption… So, what else is new without being defined?