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MANILA – The Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Court (TEP), ordered two municipal treasurers to Camarines Sur to explain the alleged irregularities discovered during the ongoing recount. the race for the vice-presidency. in the May 2016 Elections.
In a nine-page promulgation notice dated June 19 signed by Edgar Aricheta, Registrar of the Tribunal, the PET ordered the municipal treasurers of the towns of Tinambac and Tigaon as well as the members of the review committee of a barangay in Iriga City to submit their respective explanations on the said subject within 10 days of receipt of the notice.
This was the second time that the PET acted and found irregularities in the current vote count.
For the city of Tinambac, the court ordered the city treasurer to explain "the plastic seals found inside the already wet urn, the return envelope of Election not being found inside the ballot box and can not be found, envelopes for the Torn ballots seem to have been opened before, the inbox of the ballot box. missing elector and voter receipts found scattered in the ballot box. "
" Note the incident report dated May 25, 2018 on: Clustered Precinct No. 36, Brgy. Lupi, Tinambac, Camarines that reads 4 black fasteners used to seal the urn instead of the red plastic seals Comelec (Elections Committee); the plastic seals found inside the urn can not be found; election return envelope not inside the urn, can not be found; envelopes for MOVs (minutes) and torn bulletins seem to have already been opened; and the voter's inbox is missing; Elector's income found scattered in the ballot box; Orders the Review Committee to continue reviewing the paper ballots; and orders the municipal treasurer of Tinambac, Camarines Sur to explain the observations in the subject of the incident report within ten days from the notice of the present, "reads in the orderly PET
. president of the office of electoral inspectors who "can not be compared to any similar specimen in other documents" and why several fasteners are not attached to the urn and have already been cut off.
PET also headed the Barangay San Francisco Review Board in Iriga City to explain the dubious use of two MOV forms with substantial discrepancies and the difference in BEI chair signatures in the election documents.
He also demanded a justification from the Barangay La Purisima review board in the same city on the discovery of two MOVs signed by different BEI chairs
"Note the incident report dated May 30, 2018 regarding : Clustered Precinct No. 7, Brgy San Francisco, Iriga City, Camarines On which reads "There is no explanation in the MOVs with regard to the use of two forms of MOV. The entries in both MOVs have significant divergences. It is not possible to determine with certainty which of the two was actually used or whether both were used. As regards the different signatures of the EIB President in the official ballots, MOVs and envelopes, it can not be ascertained whether the signatures were made by the President of the EIB or signed by different persons; directs the Review Committee to continue reviewing the paper ballots and to reflect the entries of the two MOVs in the Review Report and to order the President of the Board of Election Inspectors to explain within ten days " , PET ruled in the same order
Last April, the PET asked the local authorities of the cities of Bato, Sagñay, Garchitorena and Ocampo to explain why the ballots were wet or damaged
. Since the wet and damaged ballots were illegible, the editors had to refer to the deciphered ballots to count the votes, but they would do so after the review of all the ballot boxes in the province.
The TEP also acknowledged that certain ballot boxes were reopened after being sealed by noting the incident reports relating to the reopening of certain ballot boxes, one of which was found sealed without the seal of broken security is returned. [19659002] The ongoing recount, which has already been postponed to the province of Iloilo, revealed several irregularities like wet urns, unused or surplus ballots with shaded votes for Vice President Maria Leonor & # 39; ; Leni & # 39; Robredo, missing audit logs and missing election receipts in the towns of Camarines Sur
The recount covers three pilot provinces – Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental – covering a total of 5,418 constituencies grouped together [19659002] After recounting these three provinces, the TEP will decide whether or not to continue with the recount of a total of 132,446 constituencies in 39,221 consolidated districts covering 27 provinces and cities identified in the demonstration of former Senator Ferdinand & # 39; Bongbong & # 39; Marcos Jr.
PET began the recount on April 2 and stated that he could not yet determine when the recount would be complete.
Marcos filed the protest on June 29, 2016, claiming that Robredo's camp had cheated in automated polls.
In his protest, Marc Il disputed the results of 132,446 constituencies in 39,221 clusters, covering 27 provinces and cities.
Robredo won the vice-presidential race in the May 2016 elections with 14,418,817 votes, or 263,473 more than the 14,155,344 votes of Marcos. (PNA)
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