THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) legal department saw no legal impediment to the poll body’s plan to utilize facilities of shopping malls around the country as voting centers in next year’s local and national elections.

“There is no problem on mall voting. The [Comelec] law department said that it saw no violation of the [Omnibus] Election Code,” Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista disclosed on Friday as he inspected the mock set-up for mall voting at Robinson’s Magnolia in Quezon City.

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