Seeking to clear its name from accusations of poll fraud, Smartmatic on Monday requested the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct a manual recount of the ballots from the recently concluded automated elections.
“There have been many accusations with no proof. To all these accusations, my best answer is even if you don't believe in the [automated] system, you can believe in a recount," said Smartmatic-Asia Pacific president Cesar Flores after attending an investigation at the House of Representatives on the alleged irregularities in the May 10 polls.
“The best way to solve this is by opening the ballot boxes. My request to Comelec and the whole country, if you don’t believe the system, [is to] do a [manual] count," he added.
Flores expressed certainty that manual counting would produce the same results as those churned up by the counting machines.
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