The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to explain a “sweetheart deal” it had entered into with Smartmatic-Total Information Management (Smartmatic-TIM).

In deliberations of the SC en banc, magistrates ordered the Comelec to lodge its comment within 10 days on a petition filed by an election watchdog and its plea to halt the deal.

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