AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM WATCH (AES Watch)
January 7, 2015
AES Watch questions Comelec-Smartmatic midnight deal
https://cenpeg.org/2015/pp&e/JAN2015/AES_Watch_questions_Comelec-Smartmatic_midnight_deal.html
Cesar Flores, president of Smartmatic-Asia, last month threatened Comelec against giving the award to other companies insisting that his company manufactured the machines, hence, only they have the right to do the repairs. Tuazon said Flores was lying through his teeth: Not only is a Shanghai-based company the real manufacturer of the machines but another firm, the Canadian Dominion Voting System, owns the system with its lease to Smartmatic contracted only for the 2010 elections.