THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) cannot delay or postpone the national and local elections scheduled on May 9, 2016 because doing so will violate the law, according to lawmakers and analysts.

The poll body also cannot revert to manual polls because the law mandates the holding of automated elections, they pointed out.

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