Poll body orders recount on Angeles mayoral race
May 5, 2011
ANGELES CITY — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division has ordered the manual recount of ballots in relation to the election protest filed by former mayor Francis Nepomuceno on May 24, 2010 against incumbent Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.
The division, presided by Commissioner Lucenito Tagle, issued the order directing the transfer of ballots of 20 percent of the pilot precincts, or a total of 37 priority precincts out of the 185 contested precincts in the city, from the Angeles City Treasurer’s office to the Comelec Philpost Warehouse in Manila within five days prior its actual recount.
The order was received by Nepomuceno last May 2, through his lawyers Romy Yusi Jr., Venancio Rivera III and Anthonie Langit who pursued the handling of the case right after Sixto Brillantes withdrew his appearance as counsel upon his assumption into office as Comelec chairman.
Nepomuceno, directed by the division to identify and submit the list of the 37 contested precincts within five days, has submitted the said list to the Comelec early this week.
The recount process will be handled by five to six revision committees from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day on weekdays, and in some cases even Saturdays. The recount is estimated to have its final results in two months.
City Election Officer Michael Camangeg and City Treasurer Juliet Quinsaat have been directed to segregate the contested precincts designated by Nepomuceno.
‘We are not afraid’
“We welcome the manual recount of the ballots ordered by the Comelec. The poll body can expect our full cooperation in this electoral protest filed by my political opponent so that the issue could finally be settled,” Pamintuan said.
He added: “We are not afraid of this poll protest and even if there will be revision/recount of the ballots to be conducted in all precincts, it will just be an ‘act of futility.”
According to Pamintuan, Nepomuceno was “soundly and decisively trounced and rejected, if we will base it on the more than 60,000 votes we overwhelmingly got from the Angelenos as against our rival’s 30,000 votes.”
Protest
Nepomuceno’s protest noted that numerous voters who were subject of the vote buying and “illegal deal” were illicitly instructed to place identifying marks or words and expressions in their ballots and invalid and void ballots were scanned and counted by the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines in favor of Pamintuan.
He said the anomalies and irregularities during the last polls here were “well-schemed and well-planned” automated cheating by mis-scanning, miscounting and mis-appreciation of the shaded ovals, including pre-programmed transmission of manufactured and doctored, distorted, and pre-determined election results.
All these, he added, resulted in the decrease in votes for him and increase in votes credited and obtained by Pamintuan.
The protest also said replacement compact flash (CF) cards used in lieu of originally installed defective CF cards were actually “pre-programmed” and “configured” to add more votes for Pamintuan.
The protest cited that during the voting, technical errors caused the rejection by the PCOS machines of numerous ballots for Nepomuceno for unexplained reasons, and that in his known bailiwicks, ballots already scanned were again inserted and scanned by replacement PCOS machines, resulting in errors to the detriment of Nepomuceno.
“Likewise, during the transmissions of the election results by the PCOS machines from the different polling precincts to the CCS laptops of the city canvass board, again, pre-determined and pre-programmed results in favor of the protestee [Pamintuan] were the ones transmitted instead of the correct results of the voting on election day. In fact, the dates reflected in the printed election results were not May 10, 2010, thus giving away the illegal scheme of pre-programming of election results,” Nepomuceno said in the protest.
It also noted that in Nepomuceno’s bailiwicks, the results transmitted to the canvassing board were those recorded during the final testing and sealing instead of those on election day.
The protest also prayed for the annulling and setting aside of the proclamation of Pamintuan as elected mayor of Angeles City.
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/05/04/poll-body-orders-recount-angeles-mayoral-race-153521
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