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The
May 2007 Poll was not, by any stretch, a perfect one.
Vote
buying, disenfranchise-ment, violence, rigging of counting,
variants of the "dagdag-bawas"
and the undemocratic coercion of the "command votes"
were still there. Let us just say that the magnitude
of the electoral abomination was not that heavy.
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Just
Before Deadline
Cayetano
to SC: Issue rule
on stray 'Cayetano' vote
MANILA. Opposition senatorial
candidate Alan Peter Cayetano filed a petition before
the Supreme Court to question the resolution of the
Commission on Elections declaring "Cayetano"
votes as stray.
Leila
de Lima, Cayetano's legal counsel said that the Genuine
Opposition bet's 14-page petition seeks a high court
ruling to nullify the poll body's May 10 decision as
"having been issued with grave abuse of discretion
tantamount to excess of jurisdiction."
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