Purge Pasig voters’ list, poll bet asks

A re-electionist candidate for kagawad in the barangay elections has filed a petition with the Commission on Elections to cleanse the voters’ list in her Pasig district, claiming that she she found out that her own home had been listed as the address of 17 fake voters.

Petitioner Thelma Dumpit-Murillo said newly-installed Commission on Elections Chairman Benjamin Abalos’ promise to conduct clean and credible barangay elections on July 15 has been put to test after the candidate asked the poll body to delete alleged fictitious names listed in the list of voters of a precinct in Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig City.

Dumpit-Murillo, news anchor of RMN News Manila and a relectionist candidate for kagawad , has asked the Comelec in a six-page petition filed last Tuesday to delete17 names from the list of voters of Precinct 646A of Barangay Kapitolyo on the ground that they are "fictitious names."

Murillo, through her lawyer, Romulo Macalintal, told the poll body that her address and apartment units at 11 Isabel Street, Barangay Kapitolyo, Pasig City were used as residential addresses of the illegal registrants.

Murillo said that as owner of the said apartment units, "no such persons with such names ever lived or is presently residing in any of them; hence, the 17 names listed in the list of voters with our residential address are clearly fictitious and should be deleted from the list of voters."

Murillo also asked the Comelec that upon the filing of her petition, the Election Officer of District 1 of Pasig City be directed to investigate and verify the actual occupants of her apartment units and to make a report to the Comelec within 24 hours.