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Atienza
urges for continuation of ballot revision
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from
NAMFREL Election Monitor Vol.2, No.16
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Losing Manila mayoralty candidate Lito
Atienza asked the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to continue
revising more ballots in connection with the protest he filed
against incumbent mayor Alfredo Lim. Atienza, through his counsel
Romulo Macalintal, said that the initial revisions done earlier this
year on contested ballots from 200 precincts yielded substantial
findings for them to urge the COMELEC to continue with the revision
of the remaining 1,221 precincts.
Atienza said that some irregularities were enumerated in their
findings after the revision of the 20 percent pilot precincts, and
this strongly indicates that more incidents of irregularities could
be revealed once the remaining 80 per cent of the ballots are
subjected to revisions. He cited one precinct where all 614 ballots
were not signed by the chairman of the Board of Election Tellers
(BET) as required by law. In three barangays in Manila (Barangays
125, 198 and 796), the signatures on the ballots did not match the
specimen signatures of the chairman or any member of the BET. These
were some of the alleged irregularities in local election for Mayor
of Manila. In March 2011, the COMELEC granted the petition of
Atienza to manually revise the ballots from 200 precincts.
Almost two months after the revision, Mayor Alfredo Lim was
proclaimed winner.
(Various news sources)
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