Cotabato City backs BOL, but ” discrepancy” noted

January 23, 2019

Residents of Cotabato City Tuesday night voted to support the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) even as a ‘’discrepancy’’ was noted in the total number of registered voters and total number of voters during the plebiscite for the BOL.

The Cotabato City certificates of canvass (COC) said there were 71,963 registered voters and 39,027 actual voters.

The number of actual voters is not in accordance to the total of the “yes” votes of 36,682 and the “no” votes of 24,994 as seen in the COC.

Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesman James Jimenez had tweeted on Saturday night Cotabato City has 113,751 registered voters and 61,676 actual voters.

Jimenez’s 61,676 actual voters is the one that matches the sum of the “Yes” and “No” votes written in the COC.

Jimenez said such a “clerical error” can “be raised and corrected during the national canvass, without affecting the outcome of the plebiscite.”

The Cotabato City COC has yet to be canvassed by the National Plebiscite Board of Canvassers in Manila. DMS