THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has discovered a massive fraud in the 2019 mayoral polls in Lipa City, Batangas.

In a 198-page order penned by Presiding Commissioner Socorro Inting, the poll body's Second Division revealed that the number of signatures and thumb marks combined were found to be not identical with the number of registered voters of 15,728, a number almost equal to the 16,920 found identical based on results of technical examination.

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