Audit group: Zubiri’s victory ‘statistically impossible’
An independent audit group came out with a report showing that elections in Maguindanao province was marred by fraud that largely benefited newly proclaimed senator Juan Miguel Zubiri.
In the 15-page Citizens’ Audit Report of the 2007 National Elections released on Friday, Halalang Marangal or the Network of Citizens for Honest Elections and Truthful Statistics, said Zubiri “is the biggest beneficiary of the Maguindanao certificates of canvass fraud because it puts him in the winning circle of senatorial candidates, dislodging Pimentel.”
Zubiri overtook Pimentel by a lead of 19,292 votes in the last tally of the Commission on Eelections. Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr read during the July 14 proclamation of Zubiri that the administration senator got a total of 11,004,099 votes, while Pimentel garnered 10,984,807 votes.
Halal, however, said that an audit of Comelec tallies from Maguindanao would show that Zubiri’s lead over Pimentel in Maguindanao was “statistically impossible.”
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