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    Juan Domino filed his candidacy for representative of Sarangani but was disqualified by COMELEC for not meeting the one-year residency requirement. COMELEC ruled that Domino's voter registration from 1997 listed his address as Quezon City. The court affirmed COMELEC's ruling, noting that residence under the law means domicile, requiring both intention to reside in a place and actual presence there. As Domino's actions indicated his intention to remain domiciled in Quezon City, where he was still registered to vote, he failed to establish the required residency in Sarangani.

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    Juan Domino filed his candidacy for representative of Sarangani but was disqualified by COMELEC for not meeting the one-year residency requirement. COMELEC ruled that Domino's voter registration from 1997 listed his address as Quezon City. The court affirmed COMELEC's ruling, noting that residence under the law means domicile, requiring both intention to reside in a place and actual presence there. As Domino's actions indicated his intention to remain domiciled in Quezon City, where he was still registered to vote, he failed to establish the required residency in Sarangani.

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    Juan Domino filed his candidacy for representative of Sarangani but was disqualified by COMELEC for not meeting the one-year residency requirement. COMELEC ruled that Domino's voter registration from 1997 listed his address as Quezon City. The court affirmed COMELEC's ruling, noting that residence under the law means domicile, requiring both intention to reside in a place and actual presence there. As Domino's actions indicated his intention to remain domiciled in Quezon City, where he was still registered to vote, he failed to establish the required residency in Sarangani.

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    Domino V Comelec

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    Juan Domino filed his candidacy for representative of Sarangani but was disqualified by COMELEC for not meeting the one-year residency requirement. COMELEC ruled that Domino's voter registration from 1997 listed his address as Quezon City. The court affirmed COMELEC's ruling, noting that residence under the law means domicile, requiring both intention to reside in a place and actual presence there. As Domino's actions indicated his intention to remain domiciled in Quezon City, where he was still registered to vote, he failed to establish the required residency in Sarangani.

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    MANALAO, Sittie Amera T.

    LlB 2-B Administrative and Election Law

    JUAN DOMINO vs. COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, et. al.


    G.R. No. 134015, July 19, 1999

    FACTS:

    Herein petitioner Domino filed his certificate of candidacy for the position of
    Representative of the Lone Legislative District of the Province of Sarangani on March 25,
    1998. On 30 March 1998, private respondents filed with the COMELEC a Petition to Deny
    Due Course to or Cancel Certificate of Candidacy alleging that Domino is not a resident,
    much less a registered voter of Sarangani where he seeks election. On 6 May 1998, the
    COMELEC 2nd Division promulgated a resolution declaring Domino disqualified as
    candidate for the position of representative for lack of the one-year residence
    requirement and likewise ordered the cancellation of his certificate of candidacy, on the
    basis that Domino’s Voters Registration Record dated June 22, 1997 shows his address
    indicated as 24 Bonifacio St., Ayala Heights, Old Balara, Quezon City. On the day of the
    election, the COMELEC issued Supplemental Omnibus Resolution No. 3046, ordering that
    the votes cast for Domino be counted but to suspend the proclamation if winning,
    considering that the resolution disqualifying him as candidate had not yet become final
    and executory.
    S
    ISSUE:

    Whether or not petitioner Domino was able to meet the residency requirement
    of at least one year preceding the election as stated in his certificate of candidacy.

    RULING:

    The court ruled in the negative. It is doctrinally settled that the term residence,
    as used in the law prescribing the qualifications for suffrage and for elective office,
    means the same thing as domicile, which imports not only an intention to reside in a
    fixed place but also personal presence in that place, coupled with conduct indicative of
    such intention. Domicile denotes a fixed permanent residence to which, whenever
    absent for business, pleasure, or some other reasons, one intends to return. Domicile is
    a question of intention and circumstances. In the consideration of circumstances, three
    rules must be borne in mind, namely: (1) that a man must have a residence or domicile
    somewhere; (2) when once established it remains until a new one is acquired; and (3) a
    man can have but one residence or domicile at a time.

    As a general rule, physical presence in the locality involved and intention to


    adopt it as a domicile must concur in order to establish a new domicile. No change of
    domicile will result if either of these elements is absent. Actual and physical is not in
    itself sufficient to show establishment of a new domicile of choice. Personal presence in
    the place must be coupled with conduct indicative of that intention.

    Domino’s lack of intention to abandon his residence is further strengthened by


    his act of registering as voter in one of the precincts in Quezon City. While voting is not
    conclusive of residence, it does give rise to a strong presumption of residence especially
    in this case where Domino registered in his former barangay. Exercising the right of
    election franchise is a deliberate public assertion of the fact of residence. The fact that a
    party continuously voted in a particular locality is a strong factor in assisting to
    determine the status of his domicile. In showing compliance with the residency
    requirement, both intent and actual presence in the district one intends to represent
    must satisfy the length of time prescribed by the fundamental law. Dominos failure to
    do so rendered him ineligible and his election to office null and void.

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