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CANVASSING OF VOTES Not later than six o'clock in the afternoon of Election Day, the Board of Canvassers shall meet at the place designated by the Commission on Elections to receive the election returns and to immediately canvass those that may have already been received. It shall meet continuously from day to day until the canvass is completed, and may adjourn but only for the purpose of awaiting the other election returns from other polling places within its jurisdiction. Each time the board adjourns, it shall make a total of all the votes canvassed so far for each candidate for each office, furnishing the Commission on Elections Main Office by the fastest means of communication a certified copy thereof, and making available the data contained therein to the mass media and other interested parties. As soon as the other election returns are delivered, the board shall immediately resume canvassing until all the returns have been canvassed. The respective Board of Canvassers shall prepare a Certificate of Canvass duly signed and affixed with the imprint of the thumbmark of the right hand of each member, supported by a Statement of the Votes received by each candidate in each polling place and, on the basis thereof, shall proclaim as elected the candidates who obtained the highest number of votes cast in the province, city, municipality or barangay. Failure to comply with this requirement shall constitute an election offense. Subject to reasonable exceptions, the Board of Canvassers must complete their canvass within thirty-six (36) hours in municipalities, forty-eight (48) hours in cities and seventy-two (72) hours in provinces. Violation hereof shall be an election offense punishable under Sec. 264 of the Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines. (Sec. 231, B.P. Blg. 881, as amended) Any officer or member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines or the Philippine National Police, or any peace officer or any armed or unarmed persons belonging to an extra-legal police agency, special forces, reaction forces, strike forces, home defense forces, barangay self-defense units, barangay tanod, or of any member of the security or police organizations of government departments, commissions, councils, bureaus, offices, instrumentalities, or government-owned and/or controlled corporations or their subsidiaries, or of any member of a privately-owned or operated security, investigative, protective or intelligence agency performing identical or similar functions, to enter the room where the canvassing of the election returns are held by the Board of Canvassers and within a radius of fifty (50) meters from such room. However, the Board of Canvassers, by a majority vote, if it deems necessary, may make a call in writing for the detail of policemen or peace officers for their protection or for the protection of the election documents and paraphernalia in the possession of the board, or for the maintenance of peace and order, in which case said policemen or peace officers, who shall be in proper uniform, shall stay outside the room within a radius of thirty (30) meters near enough to be easily called by the Board of Canvassers at any time. (Sec. 232, B.P. Blg. 881, as amended).
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CCHOPE ELECTION
2001 
