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    This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from the Philippines regarding a pre-proclamation controversy between two mayoral candidates. Private respondent Mosama M. Pandi contested the results after losing to petitioner Bairansalam Laut Lucman by 16 votes. Pandi alleged fraud and irregularities in the conduct of the election. The Supreme Court ruled that allegations of fraud are not valid grounds in a pre-proclamation controversy and must be asserted in an election protest instead. The Court held that allowing allegations of fraud to invalidate an election would disenfranchise innocent voters due to the actions of a few.

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    This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from the Philippines regarding a pre-proclamation controversy between two mayoral candidates. Private respondent Mosama M. Pandi contested the results after losing to petitioner Bairansalam Laut Lucman by 16 votes. Pandi alleged fraud and irregularities in the conduct of the election. The Supreme Court ruled that allegations of fraud are not valid grounds in a pre-proclamation controversy and must be asserted in an election protest instead. The Court held that allowing allegations of fraud to invalidate an election would disenfranchise innocent voters due to the actions of a few.

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    This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from the Philippines regarding a pre-proclamation controversy between two mayoral candidates. Private respondent Mosama M. Pandi contested the results after losing to petitioner Bairansalam Laut Lucman by 16 votes. Pandi alleged fraud and irregularities in the conduct of the election. The Supreme Court ruled that allegations of fraud are not valid grounds in a pre-proclamation controversy and must be asserted in an election protest instead. The Court held that allowing allegations of fraud to invalidate an election would disenfranchise innocent voters due to the actions of a few.

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    This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from the Philippines regarding a pre-proclamation controversy between two mayoral candidates. Private respondent Mosama M. Pandi contested the results after losing to petitioner Bairansalam Laut Lucman by 16 votes. Pandi alleged fraud and irregularities in the conduct of the election. The Supreme Court ruled that allegations of fraud are not valid grounds in a pre-proclamation controversy and must be asserted in an election protest instead. The Court held that allowing allegations of fraud to invalidate an election would disenfranchise innocent voters due to the actions of a few.

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    G.R. No.

    166229

    June 29, 2005

    MS. BAIRANSALAM LAUT LUCMAN, petitioner, vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS and MOSAMA M. PANDI, respondents.

    Facts: Petitioner Bairansalam Laut Lucman and private respondent Mosama M. Pandi were mayoralty candidates in Poona-Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, during the May 10, 2004 elections.During the canvassing of votes, private respondent objected to the inclusion of ten election returns. The Municipal Board of Canvassers (Board) overruled private respondents objections on the disputed returns,2and proclaimed petitioner as the winning candidate, as shown in the Certificate of Canvass of Votes and Proclamation of the Winning Candidates for Municipal Offices. Petitioner won over private respondent by a margin of 16 votes. Private respondent filed with Commission on Elections (COMELEC) an appeal from the ruling of the Board, alleging massive fraud and irregularities in the conduct of the elections, e.g., force, threat and intimidation were employed on the voters, double voting, substitution of voters, snatching of ballots, padding of ballots and existence of flying voters. Issue: WON Issues such as fraud or terrorism attendant to the election process is a valid issues ina pre-proclamation controversy. Held: That the padding of the List of Voters may constitute fraud, or that the Board of Election Inspectors may have fraudulently conspired in its preparation, would not be a valid basis for a preproclamation controversy either. For, whenever irregularities, such as fraud, are asserted, the proper course of action is an election protest. Such irregularities as fraud, vote-buying and terrorism are proper grounds in an election contest but may not as a rule be invoked to declare a failure of election and to disenfranchise the greater number of the electorate through the misdeeds, precisely, of only a relative few. Otherwise, elections will never be carried out with the resultant disenfranchisement of the innocent voters, for the losers will always cry fraud and terrorism

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