Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Pre-proclamation Cases. No pre-proclamation cases shall be allowed on matters relating to the preparation, transmission, receipt, custody, and appreciation of election returns or the certificates of canvass, as the case may be. However, this does not preclude the authority of the appropriate canvassing body,motu proprioor upon written complaint of an interested person to correct manifest errors in the certificate of canvass or election returns before it.

Questions affecting the composition or proceeding of the board of canvassers may be initiated in the board or directly with the COMELEC in accordance with Section 19 of Republic Act No. 7166.

Any objection on the election returns before the provincial board of canvassers or certificate of canvass before the regional board of canvassers, shall be specifically noted in the minutes of their respective proceedings.