THE DECISION of Total Information Management Corp. to withdraw from its partnership with Smartmatic International Corp. leaves the automation of the 2010 elections all but totaled. Now the critical question is: What is the Commission on Elections prepared to do, to salvage something useful from the wreck?
AS THE tenuous partnership between Total Information Management (TIM) and the Barbados-based Smartmatic International Corp. collapses, the Commission on Elections under Chair Jose Melo appears to be trying to revive the relationship, using the threat of a law suit to get them to work together.