A lawmaker has questioned the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) decision to purchase 97,000 vote-counting machines worth P2.2 billion from Smartmatic Inc.

Rep. Sherwin Tugna of Citizens Against Corruption party-list said the poll body should explain its decision considering that it also bought Precinct Count Optical Scan machines for the 2010 election that were not used.

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