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The petitioners are the representatives for the youth sector, seeks to
direct the COMELEC to conduct a special registration before May 14,
2001 general elections of new voters age 18 to 21 on February 17 and
18, 2001 to accommodate those who failed to meet the December 27,
2000 registration deadline. A memorandum was submitted requesting
for a two - day registration for new voters only. COMELEC denied the
request on the ground that Section 8 of R.A. 8189 (The Voters
before a regular election and that the Commission has no more time left
to accomplish all pre-election activities.
ISSUE
RULING
NO. Respondent COMELEC did not commit grave abuse of discretion
and acted only within the bounds and confines of the applicable law on
the matter Section 8 of RA 8189 which provides:
the period of registration and came to this Court and invoked its
protective mantle not realizing, so to speak, the speck in their eyes.
Impuris minibus nemo accedat curiam. Let no one come to court with
unclean hands.
COMELEC merely exercised a prerogative that chiefly pertains to it and
one which squarely falls within the proper sphere of its constitutionallymandated powers.