JUST IN: VP ROBREDO TELLS PET: UMAYOS KAYO!
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Feeling threatened that her temporary position as Vice President of the Philippines might be taken away from her earlier than she ever expected, Mrs. Leni Robredo on Thursday told the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to do their job correctly, by counting the votes supposed to be counted for her.
Citing the “interest of justice and fair play,” Vice President Leni Robredo on Thursday asked the Supreme Court sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to follow the threshold set by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for shading of ballots.
In the urgent motion for reconsideration, Vice President said allowing a 50 percent threshold would disenfranchise voters because votes that fell below 50 percent threshold have already been counted as valid by the vote counting machines and confirmed by the Random Manual Audit Committee.
The threshold adopted by the Comelec is designed to scan every oval on the ballot and count as vote those that contain appropriate marks based on pre-determined sharing threshold. Although the voters are told through the voter information to fully shade the ballots, the shading threshold was set at 25 percent of the oval space. Comelec said the purpose is to ensure that votes are not wasted due to inadequate shading.
Robredo’s motion also noted that the Comelec, on September 2016, informed the PET through a letter about its use of the 25% threshold in declaring votes as valid.
But with the high court’s ruling declaring that the threshold be at 50 percent, “the physical count is now running inconsistent with the results based on the Election Returns, Statement of Votes by Precinct, Ballot Images and the Voter’s Verifiable Audit Paper Trial (VVPAT).”
“This misleads the Honorable Tribunal into believing that the VCM failed to accurately read and count the ballots,” the motion added.
Robredo added that not only her votes will be affected by the 50 percent threshold, but the votes of her contender, former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos.
“Hence, both parties will benefit in the application of the 25 percent threshold percentage during the revision, recount and re-appreciation of the ballots,” she added.
Meanwhile, dozens of flying voters in Camarines Sur admitted that they only shaded 20% of the circle because of haste.
“I have to vote multiple times and consuming too much time on a single ballot will be a nonsense”, local flying voter who voted for Mrs. Robredo more than 20 times in six different precincts said.
Source: news.d30.club
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