WATCH: Postponing polls a better alternative – Comelec commissioner

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — The postponement of the elections on May 9 is a possibility, admitted the Commission on Elections — but Chairperson Andres Bautista said moving the election day is not its first option.

Bautista said, in a phone interview with CNN Philippines on Monday (March 14), pushing the election date is not yet the poll body's main recommendation, but all options are on the table.

"This is just one of the options that we are considering given the decision of the Supreme Court that was handed last Tuesday."

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"All options are on the table. We're open to several options," he said.

Bautista added that the Comelec's preferred action is that the Supreme Court grant the poll body's motion for reconsideration to reverse the order to issue voter's receipts and to further study their arguments.

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He also asked the high court to be open to a session of vote-counting machines demonstration.

Better than 'half-baked election'

Comelec Commissioner Arthur Lim personally believes that it would be better to postpone the elections than push through with an election that is not well-prepared, which he said, may lead to chaos.

"A half-baked election is totally unacceptable such that in my own personal view, without committing my colleagues, postponing the election would be a better alternative than pushing through with a half-baked election. Because a half-baked election is a prescription for total chaos," said Lim.

Receipts to derail Comelec timetable

Bautista explained how the Supreme Court's order to issue receipts will derail the poll body's timeline — with only 56 days left before the election day.

"We will need to undertake a new trusted build of the source code of vote-counting machines. That is going to entail time as we will need to bring back our certification agent, SLI Global Systems, which is based in Denver, Colorado."

Despite its legal actions to reverse the order, the Comelec has started the search for bidders to supply them with over 1 million rolls of thermal paper, worth P85 million, on which to print the receipts.