FILE PHOTO: Bongbong Marcos and Leni Robredo
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has prepared the basketball gym situated on the fifth floor of the SC-CA Building.
It is an enclosed area, air-conditioned with CCTV cameras even from its atrium and each of its corners.
The pilot recount will be held there for the protest of Bongbong Marcos against the victory of Vice President Leni Robredo.
The tables have been set for the 50 revision committees that will conduct the manual counting.
Also lined up were the ballot boxes from Camarines Sur, one of the three provinces that Marcos identified for the recount.
“At the moment, we already have a full complement of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal,” said Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) ad hoc committee vice chair Atty. Ma. Cunanan.
This coming Monday, the pilot recount will begin for the 5,400 clustered precincts. But according to the presidential tribunal, only 40 revision committees will do the recount.
Each ballot will be scrutinized and the votes will be recounted for Marcos and Robredo.
They will also mark the ballots that each party will question.
“The objections and claims will just be recorded. The purpose now is really to get the objections and claims because it will be the tribunal who will rule on those,” said PET ad hoc committee member Atty. Lemuel Arenas.
The recount will be held from Monday until Friday, at 8:30 in the morning until 4:30 in the afternoon.
They have limited time to complete the review of each ballot box, and a minute was only allotted to examine each ballot.
No deadline has been set for completing the pilot recount. But in Camarines Sur alone, it may likely take over two months before completing the manual recount. — Roderic Mendoza | UNTV News & Rescue
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