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A Metro Manila court decided that there was no sufficient evidence that Benjamin Abalos Sr, who headed the Commission on Elections during the Arroyo administration, ordered a poll official in South Cotabato province to cheat in favor of the administration’s senatorial candidates. All 11 counts of electoral sabotage in South Cotabato were dismissed, but Abalos is facing two counts of the same offense involving votes in another Mindanao province, North Cotabato. The fraud allegedly involved shaving opposition candidates’ votes to zero, so the administration slate could dominate.
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