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was Smartmatic’s automated 2010 elections defective? Because Smartmatic simply told the truth before the Delaware’s Court of Chancery that their AES solution by Smartmatic against Dominion, its partner which was the real major grounds related to the latter’s breach of agreement between functional technology for use in machines were not counting prop technical support during and after the required source code, hardware design, and manufactur­ing - matic did not comply with the AES lovers’ quarrel when two people in love get into an intense argument due to unreconcil­able unmet expectatio­ns…then part ways! It all started when Dominion was claiming that Smartmatic owed them $10 million for the use of their technology in the 2010 polls to the point of canceling their 2009 license agreement with the former; hence, the legal battle.

But what surprised AES Watch was the interventi­on of former Comelec Chairman Brillantes when he, on behalf of the Com offered to place $10 million in an escrow account and proposed that whoever wins in the Delaware case would get the money. Brillantes’ desperate proposal was to have the source code released by Dominion. However, at the time, by the SLI Global Solutions on passed. The law prescribes that months before the elections, May and indecent proposal was useless anyhow as the Comelec had already violated the law.

At this point, Brillantes could have already stopped the use of to manual elections rather than risk the country’s using an uncerti system with unknown reliabilit­y, security, accuracy, and transparen­cy. He should have known that the Comelec had repeatedly violated the law in not having a inutile proposal paved the way for

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