Whenever used in these Rules, the following words or terms shall mean:Ī) Commission shall refer either to the Commission en banc or to any of its two Divisions, unless otherwise indicated.ī) Automated Election System or AES refers to an election system using appropriate technology, in voting, counting, consolidating, canvassing, transmission of election results, and other electoral processes.Ĭ) Precinct Count Optical Scan, or PCOS, means a technology wherein an optical ballot scanner, into which optical scan paper ballots marked by hand by the voter are inserted to be counted, is located in every precinct ĭ) Official ballot refers to the paper ballot with the pre-printed names of all candidates and with ovals corresponding to each of the names printed. In the interest of justice and in order to obtain speedy disposition of all matters pending before it, these Rules or any portion thereof, may be suspended by the COMELEC. The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Rules of Procedure, the Rules of Court, and the Rules on Electronic Evidence shall apply by analogy, or in a suppletory character, and whenever necessary, practicable, and convenient. Application of the Rules of Court and other related rules.
The objective of these Rules is to afford accessible and effective remedy to address complaints on the conduct of elections relative to the use of PCOS AES in order to make the election process credible and the results thereof acceptable to the people. These rules shall apply to election disputes under the Automated Election System (AES) using the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) and shall cover pre-proclamation controversies and election protests. These rules shall be known and called as The Comelec Rules of Procedure on Disputes in an Automated Election System. IN RE: COMELEC RULES OF PROCEDURE ON DISPUTES IN AN AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM IN CONNECTION WITH THE ELECTIONS