Mar Roxas set on poll protest, wants null votes review
07/02/2010 Liberal Party (LP) president and defeated vice presidential candidate, former Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas, waited for President Aquino to take his oath of office to announce that he will be filing an electoral protest before the Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) for a recount of the vice presidential vote, which electronically, failed to read what has been termed as the “null votes”, consisting of lightly shaded ovals not read by the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, and correctly shaded votes that were not read by the same machine. Television reports quoted Roxas as saying that this matter had already been discussed with Noynoy Aquino and that there was no objection from Aquino. This announcement was made during a gathering organized by the Filipinos for Good Governance in Manila. The Roxas legal team, even during the canvassing by the Congress, acting as the National Board of Canvassers, sough to have the null votes set aside or examined and read manually, saying that there were over 3 to 4 million null votes recorded nationwide, with GMA’s Q TV report saying that Roxas and his team claimed half a million votes cast in Central and Western Visayas – known Roxas bailiwicks – were considered null votes by the Comelec. The report said that Roxas told his audience that Aquino agreed with his move to file an electoral protest not only for Roxas’ sake but also because Aquino still has reservations about the credibility of the first-ever automated elections. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100702hed5.html |
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