ELECTION LAW

(Through The Eyeglass of a Bar Candidate)

By: Comm. Rene V. Sarmiento (ret.)

 Election Law and Bar Questions
Through The Years (2010-2015)
• COMELEC [Appointment; Powers;
Jurisdiction (En Banc, Division)]
• Omnibus Election Code (Sec. 68, Sec. 78)
• Rule on Succession (Second Placer Rule)
• Party-List (Registration, Parameters)
• Creation of New Districts and Plebiscite
• PET, SET (Jurisdiction)
• COMELEC (Rule on Presidential Pardon)
• Recall
• Substitution
• Quo Warranto
• Term Limit
• Prosecution of Election Offenses
• Election Bond for Candidates
• COMELEC & HRET
 Impact of
Elections on Bar
Examiners

• Have a bearing if
bar examination
held before elections
• Bar examiners are
readers
• Filipinos are
election-sensitive
 Possible Bar
Questions in 2016
• Poe ruling
• SOCE
• Premature
Campaigning
• Term Limit
• COMELEC
• Party-List Parameters
• Voter Receipt
• Second Highest Vote
Rule
• Federalism
A Simplified
Review of
the Entire
Gamut
of Election
Law
 Concepts
• Election; History
• Suffrage; Qualifications
• Obligation vs. Privilege
• Automated Election
System
• Precinct, Polling
Station, Voting Center
• Deactivation,
Reactivation,
Cancellation
• Protest, Quo Warranto
• Campaign Period;
Election Period
 Commission on
Elections
(COMELEC)

• History
• Composition
• Qualifications
• Power and Functions
• Campaign Finance Unit
• Election Offenses,
Electoral Sabotage
 Pre-
Proclamation
Controversy

• Old Grounds
• New Grounds
 Adjudication of
Election Contests

•Municipal Courts,
Metropolitan Trial Courts
•Regional Trial Courts
•COMELEC
•House Electoral Tribunal
•Senate Electoral Tribunal
•Presidential Electoral
Tribunal
•Rules of Procedure
• Petition for
Disqualification
• Petition To Cancel
Due Course
• Rules on
Substitution
 SC Decisions on Election Law

• Three-Term Rule Nuances

• Foundling & Citizenship
• Dual Citizenship
• Substitution
• Ipso Facto Resignation
• Second Highest Vote Rule
• Premature Campaigning
• New Parameters in Party-List
System
• Residence/Domicile
• Voters and Nuisance Candidate
• Protest/Abandonment
 Conclusion

• BAR EXAMS & GOD

• DAVID’S PRAYER
PATTERN
• Ps. 116