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Why you should doubt the Maguindanao election results - 5

Posted by: Avigail Olarte | July 12, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Filed under: 2007 Elections

HISTORICALLY, no candidate should be more popular in a province other than his own.

But results for senatorial candidate Juan Miguel Zubiri in the midterm elections show otherwise, following the same pattern as that in 2004 elections where President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo showed herself stronger in Cebu than in her home province Pampanga.

Based on documents from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Zubiri appeared to be more popular in Maguindanao than in bailiwick Bukidnon. Zubiri’s vote-percentage share in all 22 towns in Maguindanao averages at 95.75 percent.

The results for Zubiri in Maguindanao are so high that in one town, Pandag, Zubiri posted a 100-percent voter-percentage share — of the 3,382 registered voters who actually voted, 3,382 voted for Zubiri. In another town, Datu Abdulah Sangki, 99.76 percent (7,920 of 7,939) of those who trooped to the polls voted for Zubiri.

These results largely differ from that of Bukidnon where even in Zubiri’s hometown, Maramag, only 84 percent of the voters cast their ballots in his favor. His highest based on initial results was seen in Kitaotao, where he got a voter-percentage share of 87.79 percent. (see table)

VOTES OBTAINED BY JUAN MIGUEL ZUBIRI IN MAGUINDANAO
MUNICIPALITY	TOTAL VOTES CAST	VOTES OBTAINED	% SHARE OF TOTAL VOTES CAST
Ampatuan	10,308	10,205	99.00%
Buluan	9,849	9,635	99.28%
Datu Abdullah Sangki	7,939	7,920	99.76%
Datu Anggal Midtimbang	5,212	4,991	95.76%
Datu Paglas	11,908	11,805	99.14%
Datu Piang	18,358	17,976	97.92%
Datu Saudi Ampatuan	11,402	11,249	98.66%
Datu Unsay	10,051	9,956	99.05%
Gen. S.K. Pendatun	10,864	10,681	98.32%
Guindulungan	4,774	4,579	95.92%
Mamasapano	10,543	10,415	98.79%
Mangundadatu	4,642	4,554	98.10%
Pagagawan	10,304	10,230	99.28%
Paglat	4,528	4,401	97.20%
Pagalungan	8,380	3,532	42.15%
Pandag	3,382	3,382	100.00%
Rajah Buayan	6,712	6,593	98.23%
Shariff Aguak	27,191	26,882	98.86%
South Upi	9,461	9,305	98.35%
Sultan sa Barongis	8,530	8,412	98.62%
Talayan	6,505	6,371	97.94%
Talitay	4,057	3,965	97.73%
TOTAL	204,900	197,039	95.75%

VOTES OBTAINED BY JUAN MIGUEL ZUBIRI IN BUKIDNON
MUNICIPALITY	TOTAL VOTES CAST	VOTES OBTAINED	% SHARE OF TOTAL VOTES CAST
Baungon		7,427
Cabanglasan	12,149	8,550	70.38%
Damulog	8,612	6,895	80.06%
Dangcagan	10,089	8,143	80.71%
Don Carlos	25,101	20,250	80.67%
Impasug-ong	14,571	10,080	69.18%
Kadingilan	13,342	8,758	65.64%
Kalilangan		10,089
Kibawe	14,188	11,917	83.99%
Kitaotao	12,400	10,886	87.79%
Lantapan	21,124	14,329	67.83%
Libona		10,256
Malitbog		5,879
Manolo Fortich		21,467
Maramag	28,509	24,048	84.35%
Pangantucan		11,314
Quezon	34,090	27,831	81.64%
San Fernando	17,258	13,402	77.66%
Sumilao		6,139
Talacag
Malaybalay City	52,253	37,510	71.79%
Valencia City	60,288	41,256	68.43%
TOTAL	456,407*	328,970*	72.08%*

* Figures based on Bukidnon provincial CoC

When asked about this statistical improbability, Zubiri said that unlike in Bukidnon, where the voters have varied ethnic and religious affiliations, voters in Maguindanao follow a “bloc voting” scheme.

“The tribal leaders give an order and people follow,” Zubiri said. He also added that he, together with Team Unity candidates Luis Singson and Prospero Pichay, were the first ones to visit Maguindanao during the campaign season, when they visited Maguindanao Governor Datu Andal Ampatuan during his birthday. Zubiri said he visited the province twice after that.

“I have no means to manufacture CoCs (certificate of canvass) that large scale because I have no machinery,” Zubiri said in response to accusations that he cheated in Maguindanao. Comelec had to recanvass the votes in Maguindanao, following statistically improbable results for Genuine Opposition senatorial candidates. Maguindanao elections supervisor Lintang Bedol earlier reported that the municipal CoCs were stolen.

“If there was hanky panky that happened, I was the one affected,” he said,”This is like nightmare for me. I just want to know if I won or lost.” He said that should close contender Aquilino Pimentel III file a protest, he will welcome an investigation and the opening of ballots.

The latest tally today shows that Zubiri is leading Pimentel by over 18,000 votes. There are three remaining provinces where canvassing has yet to be completed, but Comelec said the results for these towns will no longer affect the ranking of Zubiri.

Had Comelec disregarded the Maguindanao results, Pimentel will still be on the 12th spot with over a 110,000-lead over Zubiri.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court tomorrow is set to hold the oral arguments for Pimentel’s petition to exclude the alleged fraudulent election returns from Maguindanao. The High Court earlier dismissed his petition for a temporary restraining order to stop the canvassing of votes in the province, after failing to present evidence that the results were manipulated.

Pimentel said the Comelec should not proclaim the 12th winning candidate until after his election protest has been resolved. If the Supreme Court denies Pimentel’s petition tomorrow, Zubiri could be proclaimed on Saturday.

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“The results for Zubiri in Maguindanao are so high that in one town, Pandag, Zubiri posted a 100-percent voter-percentage share — of the 3,382 registered voters who actually voted, 3,382 voted for Zubiri. In another town, Datu Abdulah Sangki, 99.76 percent (7,920 of 7,939) of those who trooped to the polls voted for Zubiri.”

again, simply incredible!

jr_lad wrote on July 13, 2007 - 4:01 pm | Visit Link

my, my sweet jeez.

avigail, alecks: please allow me, in behalf of my family, to nominate the Commission on Elections to occupy an irrevocable, significant, and perpetual place in the book of infamy concerning the Philippine Hall of SHAME.

haven’t seen a more brazen, incorrigibly shameless act than this. cold, calculated criminal acts initiated, abetted, committed by no less than the Philippine electoral commission; leaving most decent people i know, too stunned to react for now, listlessly shaking their heads at the affront.

freewheel wrote on July 15, 2007 - 12:46 am | Visit Link

the Maguindanao senator has been proclaimed. if his mentor gloria was garcified in 2004, the last to be named senator this year was bedolized (also possibly, ampatuanized).

now, NOT doubting an obvert cheating plainly because an individual is the beneficiary of that fraud would probably be coined ZUBURY (pronounced zu–ber–E).

migz ZUBURIED, for he buried the cheating for the sake of his winning…

baycas wrote on July 15, 2007 - 6:33 am | Visit Link

correction: …NOT doubting, even for a second, that there was an overt cheating…

baycas wrote on July 15, 2007 - 7:20 am | Visit Link

While we had eliminated questionable election results almost from the birth of our country, I meant my current country of residence, the country of my birth has not done so ever since she’s suppose to be on her own two feet standing tall and proud. now, what can her people be proud of? Elections after elections there were always allegations of cheating, vote buying, violence, violation of every election rules, but seemed the country is not doing much to correct the defects, as it is getting even more daring and open as time goes on…

naykika wrote on July 17, 2007 - 1:38 am | Visit Link

I suggest that from now on until all the current officers resign the present COMELEC should be known as:

C- Constitutional
O- Office/rs
M- Manipulating
E- Election
L- Laws
E- Effectuating
C- Cheating

Ambuot Saimo wrote on July 17, 2007 - 2:31 am | Visit Link

I am also thinking of putting on Wikipedia a new specie of leeches known as “Lintang Bedol” to mean:
“A non-blood sucking linta, the offspring that resulted from G2 (Garci-Glo) union and powerful enough to change the election results by manufacturing the votes and in the process subverting the will of the People of Maguindanao. It derives “power” from a brand name feed called Glow-Abaloslos and manufactured by a company called Malacomel.”

Ambuot Saimo wrote on July 17, 2007 - 5:50 am | Visit Link

Maguindanao election was a sham. Res ipsa loquitur

peacelabenpinay wrote on July 17, 2007 - 1:53 pm | Visit Link

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