Legal Insights

Protecting Voter Intent: Disqualifying Nuisance Candidates in Philippine Elections

Explaining the Supreme Court's ruling in Teves v. COMELEC on nuisance candidates and how votes cast for them are credited to legitimate candidates.

How Courts Read Ballots: Voter Intent in Philippine Barangay Elections

A one-vote barangay election dispute shows how Philippine courts apply the idem sonans, neighborhood, and written-by-two rules to honor voter intent.

Challenging Election Results AND Preserving Voter Intent

Challenging election results is a legal process governed by strict rules. This article explains the requirements for election protests and how courts balance ballot integrity with voter intent.

Preserving Ballot Integrity Ensuring Accurate Reflection OF Voters Intent IN Philippine Elections

Ballot integrity in Philippine elections depends on accurate voter intent. Learn how courts protect the sanctity of the vote.

Ballots vs Election Returns: Authenticity Prevails in Electoral Protests

When physical ballots are tampered, election returns become the best evidence of voter intent. Learn the rule from the Vinzons-Chato case.

Suffrage and Procedure: Upholding the Electorate’s Will Despite Technicalities in Election Protests

The Supreme Court ruled that votes for a nuisance candidate with a similar surname must be counted for the bona fide candidate, protecting voter intent.

Protecting Voter Intent: Counting Votes for Bona Fide Candidates Over Nuisance Candidates

The Supreme Court ruled votes for nuisance candidates with names similar to bona fide candidates must be counted for the legitimate candidate, protecting voter intent.

Ballot Integrity Prevails: Rules for Correctly Counting Barangay Election Votes

A Supreme Court ruling clarifies appeal fee rules and ballot appreciation standards in barangay election protests, ensuring voter intent prevails.

Ballot Appreciation Rules and Voter Intent in Philippine Election Contests

How Philippine courts read ballots to honor voter intent, from idem sonans to marked ballots, explained through a barangay election dispute.

The Neighborhood Rule in Philippine Election Law: Abad v. Co Explained

Learn how the Supreme Court applied the neighborhood rule in Abad v. Co, ensuring voter intent prevails over technical ballot errors.

Correcting Vote Tabulation Errors: The Supreme Court on Voter Intent and Ballot Appreciation

The Supreme Court ruled that COMELEC must correct manifest tabulation errors and uphold voter intent in ballot appreciation, reversing a ruling that ignored certified evidence.

Philippine Election Law: Ballot Appreciation and Voter Intent in Ong v. Comelec

How the Supreme Court protects voter intent in ballot appreciation, using Ong v. Comelec to explain stray votes, markings, and validity rules.

Ballot Interpretation Upholding Voter Intent in Philippine Elections

How the Supreme Court applied the neighborhood, idem sonans, and intent rules to uphold voter intent in a barangay election protest.

Decoding Stray Votes: How Philippine Courts Uphold Voter Intent in Elections

Philippine Supreme Court ruling on stray votes, nuisance candidates, and the primacy of voter intent in election canvassing.

Philippine Election Law: Voter Intent Prevails Over Technical Ballot Defects

Supreme Court ruling clarifies that minor ballot irregularities, like missing BEI signatures, do not invalidate votes.

Ballot Authentication: How Missing BEI Signatures Affect Election Validity in the Philippines

Philippine Supreme Court ruling on whether unsigned ballots are spurious, and how voter intent prevails over technical omissions.