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Syllabus Election Law
Syllabus Election Law
I. Introduction: Suffrage
Scope of suffrage
1987 Constitution, Article V (Suffrage)
a. Qualifications of voters/disqualifications
b. Literacy requirement/property requirement
Related statute: The Voter’s Registration Act of 1996
1. Who May Register (Sec. 9)
2. System of continuing registration of voters (Sec. 8)
3. Disqualification (Sec. 11)
4. Change of residence to another city or municipality (Sec. 12)
5. Change of address in the same city or municipality (Sec. 13)
6. Illiterate or disabled applicants (Sec. 14)
7. Election Registration Board (Sec. 15)
8. Challenges to Right to Register (Sec. 18)
9. Power to administer oath and issue summons (Sec. 19)
10. Approval and disapproval of application (Sec. 20)
11. Publication of action on application for registration (Sec. 21)
12. Deactivation of registration (Sec. 27)
13. Reactivation of registration (Sec. 28(
14. Cancellation of registration (Sec. 29)
15. Jurisdiction in inclusion and exclusion case (Sec. 33) in relation to Sec. 2 (3), Art. IX-C, 1987
Constitution
16. Petition for inclusion of voters in the list (Sec. 34)
17. Petition for exclusion of voters from the list (Sec. 35)
18. Voter excluded through inadvertence or registered with an erroneous or misspelled name (Sec. 37
19. Election offenses (Sec. 45)
20. Penalties (Sec. 46)
21. Double registration (Sec. 261, Omnibus Election Code)
22. Prescription (Section 267, Omnibus Election Code)
23. Bar questions
Local Absentee Voting – Comelec Resolution NO.1043 – Rules and Regulations on Local Absentee Voting in
connection with the May 13, 2019 National and Local Elections
Sec. 1. – Local absentee voting definition
Sec. 2 – Who are entitled to avail of local absentee voting
Overseas Absentee Voting – R.A. 10590 amending R.A. 9189, entitled “An Act Approving for a System of
Overseas Absentee Voting by Qualified Citizens of the Philippines Abroad
Sec. 3 – Coverage
Sec. –Disqualifications
Sec. 36.8 – Declared unconstitutional
Case: Loida Nicolas-Lewis v. Comelec, G.R. NO. 223705, August 14, 2019
Cases:
1. Pungutan v. Abubakar, G.R. No. L-33541. January 20, 1972
2. Maquera v. Borra, G.R. No. L-24761, September 7, 1965
3. Marquez v. Comelec, G.R. No. 244274, September 3, 2019
4. Akbayan Youth v. Comelec, G.R. 147066, March 26, 2001
5. Faypon v. Quirino, G.R. No. L-7068, December 22, 1954
6. Baytan v. Comelec, G.R. No. 153945, February 4, 2003
Rotational scheme
o Case: Gaminde v. Comelec, G.R. No. 140335, December 13, 2000
o Bar questions
III. Candidacy
Qualifications of candidates
o Citizenship
Who are Filipino citizens (Section 1, Article IV, 1987 Constitution)
Modes of acquiring citizenship
Naturalization and denaturalization
Dual citizenship and dual allegiance
Loss and re-acquisition of Philippine citizenship
Natural-born citizens and public office
o Related statute: RA 9225
o Cases: Tecson v. Comelec, G.R. No. 161434, March 3, 2004
Mercado v. Manzano, G.R. 135083, May 26, 1999
Poe-Llamanzares v. Comelec, G.R. NO. 221697, March 8, 2016
Maquiling v. Comelec, G.R. No. 195649, April 16, 2013
Tan v. Crisologo, G.R. No. 193993, November 8, 2017
o Bar questions