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[2/2] Bashier vs. CE

[2/2] SHEIK ACHMAD BASHIER, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, TOCOD MACARAYA, SACAR BASMAN, PANGALIAN BALINDONG and MACAPANTON ABBAS, JR., respondents./MACAPANTON ABBAS, JR., petitioner, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, PROVINCIAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS OF

G.R. No. L-33692/G.R. No. L-33699/G.R. No. L-33728 | 1972-02-24

The moment such underlying presumption is destroyed by unrebutted clear and convincing evidence before Comelec that not only did the election inspectors not comply with the duty required of them by law but that the serious defects shown by the voting records amounting to falsification thereof could not have happened without the active participation of the inspectors themselves, the election returns thus prepared by the inspectors lose their prima facie status as bona fide reports of the true count of the votes and must be deemed falsified and spurious.

Indeed, what other conclusion can be drawn from the overwhelming illegal and fake votes...