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HARRY James Atalig Masga said he will file an election complaint in Superior Court pertaining to the 101 absentee ballots “selectively targeted” by the Commonwealth Election Commission.

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Published July 4, 2021, 5:03 PM Supreme Court The Supreme Court (SC) has penalized the chief judicial officer of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PhilJA) for helping facilitate the distribution of pamphlets of then Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to the offices of the justices on July 1, 2019. An investigation conducted by the SC’s Office of Administrative Services (OAS) showed that the pamphlets entitled “The Election Protest of Bongbong Marcos, A Simplified Illustration as of May...

Published July 2, 2021, 10:15 AM Vice President Ma. Leonor Robredo (MB foto) Vice President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo on Friday, July 2, said former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “needs to concede and accept his defeat with grace.” In her comment and opposition filed with the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) which is composed of all Supreme Court (SC) justices, Robredo said Marcos’ motion to reconsider the tribunal’s decision that dismissed his election protest “mu...

Romulo Macalintal In a statement, Robredo’s lawyer Romulo Macalintal noted the “dispositive portion” of a decision was the final order or judgment by the court. “Its dispositive portion clearly and unequivocally stated that the PET ‘dismisses the Election Protest by Protestant Ferdinand Bongbong R. Marcos, Jr. for lack of merit,’” Macalintal said. The Supreme Court, acting as PET, which released on Tuesday a full copy of its ruling, had dismissed the case because Marcos was not ab...

SunStar File February 16, 2021 (UPDATED) For lack of merit, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, unanimously dismissed on Tuesday, February 16, the electoral protest filed by former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong" Marcos Jr. against Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo. In a statement, the SC said seven of the 15 PET members present during the meeting Tuesday “fully concurred in the dismissal while 8 concurred in the result.” The statemen...

And quite frankly i looked at the overall vote numbers in bladen county and i saw that mr. harris won. i didnt look at the absentee numbers. we dont usually question the -- >> i get it. i know. and believe me, if i was sitting in your position, that stinks. something happened under your nose. but you did fail mr. pittinger, didnt you? he was incumbent member of congress. hes a republican. he lost to this challenger and it appears that he lost partly because of a vote padding from an illegal vote...

Elections that all of a sudden drop this on our lap after no election protest was filed, after mr. mccready conceded the election after no recount was called for and after all of the local boards of election certified the race. we have never seen that happen. >> wait a second. >> sir, if i can just finish this one point. >> i will let you. >> and at the same time the state is engaged in a very difficult negotiation and fight over the control of the board of elections. >> that i know. >> and so t...

Investigating this for a decade and havent got their hands around it. thats all we could have done. and quite frankly i looked at the overall vote numbers in bladen county and i saw that mr. harris won. i didnt look at the absentee numbers. we dont usually question the -- >> i get it. i know. and believe me, if i was sitting in your position, that stinks. something happened under your nose. but you did fail mr. pittinger, didnt you? he was incumbent member of congress. hes a republican. he lost ...

Your position was this is a sort of made up scandal and the democrats are out to try to steal this out from under our noses. we won 905 votes, theyre refusing to concede. that proved to be wrong. you got out over your skis, there was actual, apparent criminal activity. >> okay. yes. what i would say is, is there are a lot of different things that are going on here, the ground is shifting under our feet. i dont think you can excuse the democrats on the state board of elections that all of a sudde...