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Senate transfers COCs, ERs to House of Representatives

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The Senate on Monday transferred a total of 156 or 90.17 percent of the 173 certificates of canvass (COCs) and election returns (ERs) to the House of Representatives at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City.

According to the Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau (PRIB), Senate security officers and personnel started preparing the ballot boxes containing COCs and ERs Sunday night and loaded them into 11 armored trucks and two armored personnel carriers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

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'Irregular' notarization makes docs questionable: SC

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The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that irregularities in the notarization of public documents may put to question the genuineness and presumption of regularity of transactions, as it sternly warned a notary public who failed to register a deed of sale of real property he notarized which later became the subject of adverse claims.

In a 19-page decision written by Associate Justice Samuel Gaerlan and recently posted online by the high court, the court’s First Division said regardless of the reason, the failure of the notary public to register the subject deed of sale “casts doubt on the authenticity” of a document signed by a notary public.

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