Nabasa ang ballota, gisamotan pa gyud nang resign..
Something smells like rotten here.
VP race recount hits snag as revisors quitposted April 04, 2018 at 01:50 am by Rey E. Requejo and Joel E. Zurbano, Rio N. Araja
THE recount of votes for the vice presidential race in the 2016 elections hit a snag Tuesday after several heads of revision committees resigned for unknown reasons.
This prompted former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Leni Robredo to express concern because this could delay the proceedings to resolve the election protest.
Only a day after the recount started, four of the 40 head revisors assigned by the Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, resigned.
A head revisor leads a three-member committee, composed of the head revisor himself and one representative each from the Robredo and Marcos camps.
“We are surprised and concerned with the withdrawal of the four head revisors for no apparent reason. I hope this will not result in another round of delays, especially now that we have started to uncover clear signs of fraud,” Marcos said in a statement.
“They are no ordinary revisors, having undergone rigid psychological test and meticulous screening by the PET. They must have a compelling reason for backing out and I am one with the Filipino people in asking why,” he added.
The former senator said the PET had already postponed the recount twice—from February to March and then from March to April—because of the difficulty in securing the required number of revisors.
The PET had initially planned to constitute 50 revision committees but was only able to fill in 40 committees with their head revisors.
Marcos earlier bewailed the slow pace at the start of the recount last Monday, believing that it could take more than three months to finish the revision of his three pilot provinces--Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental—with a total of 5,418 clustered precincts.
The former senator expressed hopes the manual recount would speed up once the process is streamlined.