The Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, has ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately conduct the Automated Election System (AES) Project’s closure/stripping activities for all the Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) covered by the election protest of former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. against Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo.

In a resolution dated November 8, 2016 that was released just recently, the electoral tribunal mandated the election court to fast-track the closure/stripping activities that are covered by the poll protest.

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