Junk Roxas’ poll protest, VP asks PET 08/03/2010

Junk Roxas’ poll protest, VP asks PET

08/03/2010 Vice President Jejomar Binay has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to dismiss the election protest filed against him by defeated vice presidential candidate Manuel Roxas II of the Liberal Party (LP). In a 76-page comment and counter-protest filed by his counsel Sandra Coronel yesterday, Binay cited a ruling of the high tribunal, which also serves as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), that said there should first be an indication as to what precincts where the electoral fraud was allegedly committed. Binay argued that the electoral protest filed by Roxas did not mention a particular place or precincts where the alleged electoral fraud was committed during the May 10, 2010 automated elections. Binay won by 727,084 votes over Roxas. In his counter-protest, the Vice President asked the PET to order the recount of votes from 40,000 precincts in Regions 6 (Western Visayas), 7 (Central Visayas) and Caraga where electoral fraud was allegedly committed against Binay.  On July 9, Roxas questioned the victory of Binay before the PET and asked the PET to order a recount of some three million votes nullified by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100803hed2.html

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