SM Supermalls President Steven Tan and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia led the signing of the memorandum of agreement (MoA) for the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) mall voting, scheduled on Oct. 30, 2023. The MoA signing was held in SM City Manila last Aug. 7, 2023.

Five SM malls would be participating in the pilot implementation of mall voting: SM City Manila, SM City North Edsa, SM City Sucat, SM City Legazpi in Albay and SM City Consolacion in Cebu, involving a total of over 8,000 registered voters.