EXPLAINER: The blemished reputation abroad of Miru, Comelec’s 2025 voting machine supplier

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Miru has won the big-budget deal to deploy voting machines to the Philippines for next year's polls, but the South Korean company is still being haunted by reports of faulty devices and manual recounts in countries that previously sought its services

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The enduring allegations against Miru came from The Sentry, an organization that “produces hard-hitting investigative reports and dossiers on individuals and entities connected to grand corruption and violence,”, the group took a deep dive on Miru’s alleged efforts to penetrate the election scene in Argentina, a country that had yet to automate its polls at the national level back then.

“Were the machines originally intended for Argentina modified for use in DR Congo? How can electronic voting technology that failed review in Argentina be safe for use in DR Congo’s arguably more logistically-demanding electoral environment?” The Sentry asked.The Sentry shared documents they obtained with Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist of the US-based Center for Democracy and Technology.

supposed reliance on 2G and 3G wireless cellular connections, which “could leave information stored on Miru’s system open to tampering via hacking” saying that Iraq’s election commission “ignored an anti-corruption body’s warnings about the credibility of electronic vote-counting machines used in May’s parliamentary election” that year. The equipment in question came from Miru.The anti-corruption body reportedly raised nearly a dozen red flags in the partnership, from contractual procedures undertaken by the commission, to its supposed failure to examine the machines for potential flaws.

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