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Sultan Sarangani, Sarangani, Hassan vs COMELEC, Omar, Osop and Yassin

SULTAN USMAN SARANGANI, SORAIDA M. SARANGANI and HADJI NOR HASSAN, petitioners, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and HADJI ABOLAIS R. OMAR, MANAN OSOP and ATTY. NASIB D. YASSIN, respondents.

G.R. No. 135927 | 2000-06-26

D E C I S I O N


BUENA, J.:

Way back in the 1950's and during the martial law era, it has been said that even the dead, the birds and the bees voted in Lanao. This petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court which seeks to nullify the Order issued by the Commission on Elections [COMELEC, for brevity] dated June 29, 1998, finding Padian Torogan in Madalum, Lanao Del Sur as "ghost precinct," is an illustrative case.

The facts are as follows:

On September 15, 1997, a petition for annulment of several precincts and annulment of book of voters in Madalum, Lanao Del Sur was filed with the COMELEC by, among others, Hadji...