Employees of Smartmatic, Comelec charged over tinkering with election server

By Jomar Canlas, TMT

Jun 08, 2017 12:00 am

THERE could soon be a legal basis to the claim of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos of fraud during the May 9, 2016 vice presidential elections.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday charged employees of voting machine provider Smartmatic and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for changing the script in the transparency server on election night without authorization.

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