The Concerned Citizens movement today filed a Supplemental Motion for reconsideration from a decision of the Supreme Court upholding the legality of the COMELEC- Smartmatic Automated Election Systems.
In a 25 page motion, CCM singled out two new grounds both of which arose from “supervening events” since the High Court dismissed the CCM Petition against the COMELEC. The grounds alleged by CCM are as follows:
I. Comelec/Smatmatic will not be able to comply with the July 10, 2009 because of their failure to provide telecommunication facilities –both satellite and land-based- that will assure one hundred per cent communications coverage at all times during the conduct of the 2010 general elections as stated in the contract.
2. Smartmatic resorted to subcontracting to manufacture the Precinct Count Optical Scan machines in question, first to JARL-Tech, and now, to a Chinese company known as Quisdi, violates not only the Comelec’s own bidding rules but also Republic Act 9184, the government’s New Procurement Act.