Article 7p. 7

SPECIAL RULES OF PROCEDURE SUPPLEMENT TO THE RULES OF COURT

SEC. 6. Effect of failure to appear . - The failure of the

protestant or counsel to appear at the preliminary

conference shall be cause for dismissal, motu proprio ,

of the protest or counter-protest. The failure of the

protestee or counsel to appear at the preliminary

conference shall have the same effect as provided in

Section 4(c), Rule 4 of these Rules, that is, the court may

allow the protestant to present evidence ex parte and

render judgment based on the evidence presented.

SEC. 7. Preliminary conference order . - Within three

days following the date of the preliminary conference,

the court shall issue an order summarizing the matters

taken

up

and stipulations or agreements reached

during the conference. The court shall specify in the

preliminary conference order when the revision of

ballots will commence, which shall be within five days

from the termination of the preliminary conference.

RULE 10 REVISION OF BALLOTS

SECTION 1. Start of revision . - The revision of ballots

shall

commence

on

the

date

specified

in

the

preliminary conference order.

SEC. 2. Revision committee; under the supervision of

the court . - There shall be constituted such number of

revision committees as may be necessary. Each revision

committee shall be composed of a chairperson and two

members,

one

designated

by

the

protestant

and

another designated by the protestee. The court shall

designate the chairperson from among its personnel.

The

parties

shall

also

designate

their

respective

substitute revisors.

The revision committee shall conduct the revision in

the court premises or at such other place as may be

designated by the court, in every case under its strict

supervision.

The

revisors

shall

discharge

their duties with the

highest

degree

of

integrity,

conducting

the

proceedings with the same dignity and discipline as if

undertaken by the court itself. They shall exercise

extraordinary

diligence

and

take

precautionary

measures

to

prevent

the

loss,

disappearance

or

impairment

of

the

integrity(such

as

marking

or

spoilage by any means) of the ballots and election

documents.

SEC. 3. Compensation of the revisors . - The court shall

fix the compensation of the revisors at Four Hundred

Pesos(P400.00) per ballot box for the chairperson and

One Hundred Fifty Pesos (P150.00) per ballot box for

each party revisor. The party revisors shall be entitled to

an additional per diem of Five Hundred Pesos (P500.00)

each per day. This compensation shall be chargeable

against the cash deposit as provided for in Section 2,

Rule 7 of these Rules.

SEC. 4. Continuous revision . -

(a) Period for revision . - Revision shall be conducted

from 8:30 o'clock in the morning to 12:00 noon and

from 1:30 to 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon from Monday

to Friday, except on non-working holidays. The revisors

may take a fifteen-minute break in each session.

(b) Revision to continue even if a party revisor is absent

or late . - The revision of ballots shall not be delayed or

postponed by reason of the absence or tardiness of a

party

revisor

or

substitute revisor, as long as the

chairperson and one party revisor are present. The

court may at any time designate another chairperson if

the regular chairperson fails for any reason to report.

(c) If the revisor of the protestee is absent or late . - If the

revisor of the protestee is absent or late for thirty

minutes and no alternate appears as a substitute, the

revision shall, nevertheless, commence; the protestee

shall be deemed to have waived the right to appear and

to object to the ballots in the precinct or precincts

scheduled for revision on that particular day.

(d) If the revisor of protestant or the revisors of both

parties fail to appear . - If the revisor of the protestant or

the revisors of both parties and alternates fail to appear

for no justifiable reason within one hour after fixed

hours from the start of the revision, the ballot boxes

scheduled

for

revision

on

that

day,

and

the

corresponding

keys

in

the

possession

of

the

chairperson,

shall

be

returned

to

the

ballot

box

custodian of the court and shall no longer be revised; it

is understood that the parties waive their right to revise

the same, and the chairperson concerned shall state

such facts in the corresponding revision report.

SEC. 5. Prohibited access . - During the revision of

ballots, no person other than the judge, the clerk of

court, the chairperson and the members of the revision

committees,

the parties and their duly authorized

representatives, shall have access to the revision area.

SEC.

6.

Preparation

and

submission

of

revision

report . - The committee shall prepare and submit to

the court a revision report per precinct stating the

following:

(a) the precinct number;

(b) the date, place and time of revision;

(c) the votes of the parties per physical count;

(d) the condition and serial numbers of the following:

(1) ballot boxes;

(2) self-locking security metal or plastic seals(inner and

outer) and padlocks of the ballot boxes;

(3) security envelopes containing the election returns;

and

(4) numbered paper seal of the envelopes;

(e) the votes of the parties per ballot-box copy of the

election returns and per the tally sheet/board found

inside the ballot box;

(f) the number of ballots objected to by the parties

indicating therein the exhibit numbers;

(g) the grounds of objections;

(h) the number of stray ballots;

(i) the claims on ballots with their exhibit numbers; and

(j) the entries in the Minutes of Voting and Counting,

particularly:

(1) the number of registered voters;

(2) the number of voters who actually voted;

(3) the number of official ballots together with their

serial numbers used in the election;

(4) the number of ballots actually used indicating the

serial numbers of the ballots; and

(5)

the

unused

ballots

together

with

their

serial

numbers.

The revision forms shall be made available prior to

revision. The per-precinct revision report shall be signed

and certified to by the chairperson and the revisors of

the parties, and shall form part of the records of the

case. A copy of the required form for the revision report

is hereto attached.

In addition to the per-precinct revision report, the

revision committee shall also prepare and submit to the

court,

within

three

days

from

termination

of the

revision, a committee report summarizing the data,

votes, ballot objections and claims, and significant

observations made in the revision of ballots from the

protested

precincts

and

later

from

the

counter-protested precincts, if so conducted based on

the provisions of Section 9 hereof. Each party furnished

with a copy of the committee report may submit their

comments thereon within a non-extendible period of

three days from notice.

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