126 "3.7. Non-Compliance with prescribed Forms which will not affect the validity of Rolls and other Election Documents. No registration roll or other election document shall be invalidated on the ground that it is not printed or because of any error made in the copying or printing thereof." We do not give the impression from the above quoted provision that the NEC is not mandatorily required to comply with the requirements of Section 3.6, as interpreted hereinabove, or that consequences are not or cannot be attached to non-compliance with the provisions. We acknowledge that there was noncompliance and that the non-compliance did deprive certain citizens of the right to vote. We do state, however, that from the totality of the evidence presented by the appellants, the violations as a matter of law do not reach the threshold of such an impact on the totality of the votes as to warrant or necessitate declaring the elections null and ordering a re-run. What we direct herein is that given the fact that the FRR is already prepared and in possession of the appellee NEC, coupled with the fact that the Supreme Court is authorized to correct, modify or enter the requisite judgment that the trial court (or administrative tribunal) should have entered, the appellee, in the interest of transparency and fairness to these electoral process, is mandated and ordered to fully comply with the standards of publications of the FRR discussed herein, including that a full clean-up be made of the FRR and that it be made available in published hard-copies to all its Magistrates and polling places across the country several days prior to any run-off election being held. This clean-up must be done in consultation with and information to the two political parties who are to participate in the run-off. This is important to avoid attacks on the credibility on the process. Wherefore and view of the foregoing, it is the considered opinion of this Court that the ruling of the NEC’s Board of Commissioner declaring a run-off election is hereby affirmed, however, with modifications as follows: ◼ That the NEC is mandated and ordered to fully comply with the standards of publications of the FRR as discussed herein; ◼ That the NEC is mandated to conduct a full clean-up of the FRR to ensure that multiple names of identification number are removed therefrom;

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