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A NEOPHYTE lawmaker on Friday called on the
Commission on Elections (Comelec) to crack down on the estimated two
million dubious and fictitious names of voters so as to ensure an
honest election in 2010.
Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus
Rodriguez filed House Resolution No. 432, urging the Comelec to look
into alleged discrepancies and the unexplained increase in the
number of voters in many regions, which is not consistent with
census figures.
“There are two million voters
who are registered twice. Many of them have died, have transferred
residences or have gone abroad but are still in the voter’s master
list,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez, a former counsel of
former President Joseph Estrada, emphasized that the Comelec should
uphold its duty to ensure free, orderly, honest, peaceful and
credible elections by protecting the sanctity of the ballot, because
the Filipino people has had enough of polls marred by massive
disenfranchisement of voters arising from vote-padding,
vote-shaving, multiple entries, entries of dead voters, among
others.
“We have to be united in facing
crises so we have to be sure that our leader is really the choice of
the people and can provide moral leadership,” Rodriguez said.
--Sammy Martin
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