ADVOCATES of Filipino migrant workers welfare have asked the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) lease of 70,977 units of optical mark readers (OMRs) for the 2016 polls.

Francisco Aguilar Jr. and Guillermo Santos filed a 41-paged prohibition on Monday urging the high court to nullify the deal between the Comelec and automated elections system provider Smartmatic-TIM, under the Resolution No. 9980.

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