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Anni vs. Izquierdo, et al.

JULASIRI M. ANNI, petitioner, vs. MUSS IZQUIERDO, COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS OF SULU, respondents.

G.R. No. L-35918 | 1974-06-28

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court sets aside the questioned Comelec resolution which ordered the outright exclusion and rejection of the returns of 89 precincts from 7 Sulu municipalities as "manufactured returns" (because of excess votes) and thereby excluded over 5,000 votes for petitioner notwithstanding the admitted existence of actual voting therein and their having been duly verified by the Comelec examination of the registration and voting records to have been validly cast by the duly registered voters, which if not arbitrarily rejected, were much more than sufficient to maintain petitioner's margin of victory over...