Miru Programs president Chung Jin Bok through the P18-billion contract signing between Comelec and Miru Programs Co. Ltd. for lease of an automatic election system for use within the 2025 nationwide and native midterm elections. —Inquirer file picture/Richard A. Reyes
MANILA, Philippines — The nation’s new automated election service supplier, Miru Programs Co. Ltd, has signed a memorandum of settlement with the Fee on Elections (Comelec) and the Nationwide Printing Workplace (NPO) for the 73 million ballots for use in subsequent 12 months’s midterm polls.
In keeping with the settlement signed on Thursday on the Comelec central workplace in Manila, the NPO will probably be utilizing model new machines lent by Miru, which makes use of the most recent know-how from trade chief, HP.
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In an announcement, Miru mentioned P1.6 billion from its current bundled contract because the official election supplier for the 2025 elections has been allotted to the printing of 73 million ballots, which is able to start within the second week of December.
“We’re very honored and privileged to work with the NPO. Irrespective of how good our gadgets are, we gained’t be capable of meet our purpose of delivering this necessary a part of the undertaking with out the ballots,” mentioned Ken Cho, vp for abroad gross sales of Miru.
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NPO director Renato Acosta mentioned the signing of the tripartite settlement was “a part of our collective [determination] to supply a protected, safe and available for the next elections.”
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For his half, Comelec Chair George Garcia famous the significance of assembly the tight deadlines set for submitting of candidacies and submission of election peripherals.
“We now have to come back collectively as a result of now we have a short while left,” Garcia mentioned.
Garcia mentioned every poll has a as seen Comelec watermark, a QR code and a secret marking that solely he and Acosta find out about.
Each poll may also be “print-specific,” that means it can’t be learn if fed to an automatic counting machine in one other voting precinct.
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