High Court: Hold oral arguments on VVPAT

The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered oral arguments on the appeal over the Voter Verification Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) feature of the vote counting machines (VCMs) that will be used in the May 9, 2016 elections.

During the last en banc deliberations of the justices for the month before their Baguio Summer Session in April, the SC issued the order after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) sought a reconsideration of the court’s ruling directing the poll body to print voters’ receipts that must correspond to the votes cast.