The Commission on Elections (Comelec) may find itself embroiled again in a prolonged legal challenge should Smartmatic-TIM win the bidding for additional counting machines for the 2016 elections.

“This is one possibility that we want to prevent from happening. We want to help Comelec and the country avoid any and all doubts about our electoral process,” Archibald de Mata, legal counsel of Indra Sistemas S.A., said on Thursday.

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