AN election watchdog group on Friday raised the possibility of “no elections in 2016” after the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared a bidding failure for the acquisition of P2.5 billion worth of counting machines

Nicanor Elman of the Citizens for Clean and Credible Elections (C3E) said the Comelec has disqualified the last two bidders —Smatmatic-TIM and Indra Sistemas S.A.—for “submitting non-responsive financial proposals.”

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