What to do with Miru deal

Before the Holy Week break, a top official of the National Security Council raised concerns and fears of potential “foreign interference” in our country’s upcoming May 2025 mid-term elections. Jonathan Malaya, NSC’s assistant director general, noted in particular the persistent cyberattacks from foreign sources” as reported by the Department of Information and Communications Technology .

The Comelec servers were breached by hackers who publicly released voters’ personal details online in 2016. A critical spotlight has been directed towards the Senate and House hearings that looked into the questions raised on the Korean company Miru Systems Co. Ltd. after it became the lone bidder that qualified the Comelec screening. The Miru Systems was awarded last month the P17.9-billion contract for voting machines that will be used in the May 2025 polls.

When I asked him directly if he trusts Miru can do a better job than Smartmatic, the Comelec chief retorted: “Yes, Miru conducted five times the presidential elections in Korea. And no complaint was ever raised by losing candidates.” In the case of Iraq, 70 percent reportedly of voting stations put up by Miru had problems so that the strife-torn Middle East country reverted to manual count.

Upon closer inspection, the situation surrounding Miru’s domestic operations becomes increasingly untenable due to its association with a local partner in the Philippines, St. Timothy Construction, a company it used as financial associate to meet our government’s bidding requirements. Such, however, aroused more suspicions on St. Timothy Construction with no track record related to elections.

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