Going manual in the 2016 local and national elections is no longer an option, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) partly because time is not on its side.

The poll body cited a recent Supreme Court (SC) decision that voided a P268-million contract for the diagnostics, repair and refurbishment of 82,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines.

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