Practice question
In a national election covered by RA 7166, Section 15, an interested person identifies a manifest arithmetic error in the certificate of canvass before the appropriate canvassing body. Does the section's restriction on specified pre-proclamation cases eliminate all authority to correct that manifest error?
- Yes, because all mathematical errors must remain forever
- Yes, because a national election has no canvassing body
- No; Section 15 expressly preserves correction of manifest errors by the appropriate canvassing body
- Yes, unless every candidate leaves the country
- No; because the body can decide any unrelated dispute without limits
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7166, Sections 15 and 16, national and local pre-proclamation limits: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7166_1991.html
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