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Bagumbayan-VNP Movement vs. COMELEC

BAGUMBAYAN-VNP MOVEMENT, INC. and RICHARD J. GORDON, as Chairman of BAGUMBAYAN-VNP MOVEMENT, INC., Petitioners, -versus- COMISSION ON ELECTIONS, Respondents. Present: SERENO, C.J., CARPIO, VELASCO, JR, LENARDO-DE CASTRO, BRION,* PERALTA, BERSAMIN DEL CASTILLO, PEREZ, MENDOZA, REYES, PERLAS-BERNABE, LEONEN JARDELEZA, and CAGUIOA, JJ.

G.R. No. 222731 | 2016-03-08

Republic of the Philippines
Supreme Court
Manila

EN BANC
 
RESOLUTION

LEONEN, J.:

A petition for mandamus may be granted and a writ issued when an agency "unlawfully neglects the performance of an act which the law specifically enjoins as a duty resulting from an office."1

Petitioners Bagumbayan Volunteers for New Philippines Movement, Inc. (Bagumbayan-VNP, Inc.) and Former Senator J. Gordon (Gordon) filed this Petition2 for mandamus before this court to compel respondent Commission on Elections to implement the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail security feature.

Bagumbayan-VNP, Inc. is a non-stock and non-profit corporation.3 It...