THE Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) worst case-scenario to revert to manual polls is simply not feasible as it will violate an existing law that mandates an automated election system, election watchdog Citizens for Clean and Credible Elections (C3E) and topnotch election lawyer Romulo Macalintal said on Sunday.
C3E and Macalintal were reacting to a recent pronouncement made by the Comelec after the Supreme Court (SC) issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against implementation of a P268-million negotiated contract between the poll body and Smartmatic-TIM Corp.
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