comelec resolution no. 7859 - Philippine Center for Investigative ...

a) Announce that a correction/s will be made in a particular Statement of
Votes by Precinct/Municipality/City;
b) Retrieve and re-open the election returns/certificate of canvass
concerned;
c) Verify the entry;
d) Announce the correct entry; and
e) Direct the member who made the erroneous entry to make the proper
correction by encircling the erroneous entry and writing immediately above
the circle the correct entry in his copy of the Statement of Votes by
Precinct/Municipality/City.
The members of the Board shall authenticate the correction by affixing their
initials immediately after the correction. The Chairman shall then return the corrected
Statement of Votes by Precinct/Municipality/City to the Tabulators who shall recompute
the sub-totals where the discrepancy occurred and accomplish the certification portion
intended for them in the Statement of Votes by Precinct/Municipality/City and submit the
same to the Board.
The same procedure shall be observed in the canvass of the election
returns/certificate of canvass for Member, House of Representatives and local positions;
10) For the purpose of preparing the Summary of Statement of Votes, the
Chairman shall divide a set of Summary of Statement of Votes between the Vice-
Chairman and Secretary. The Vice-Chairman and Secretary shall record in their
respective copies, the:
a) Serial number of the Statement of Votes by
Precinct/Municipality/City;
b) Sub-totals of the number of registered voters, the voters who
actually voted and votes obtained by each candidate as reflected in
the Statement of Votes by Precinct/Municipality/City;
When all the sub-totals of the Statement of Votes by Precinct/Municipality/City
are recorded, the Board shall forward the same to the Tabulators who shall add the
entries and verify whether the entries therein are the same. The Tabulators shall initially
record the grand total in a separate sheet of paper and compare whether the grand
totals are the same.
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