"If we start the recount this month, I think the results will be out before the year ends," Marcos said in the weekly Kamuning Bakery forum in Quezon City.


Marcos, who lost the vice presidential race by 263,473 votes, is protesting the victory of Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo before the Supreme Court sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal.


The Marcos camp accuses Robredo of benefiting from "massive electoral fraud, anomalies and irregularities" such as the pre-shading of ballots, pre-loaded data storage cards, misreading of ballots, malfunctioning vote-counting machines, and an "abnormally high" unaccounted votes or "undervotes."


Marcos emphasized that he lost about four million votes in last year's automated elections.


"Maybe the votes were given to another candidate," he told reporters, without naming names.


"We are very sure that when the recount begins, the real results will come out and we will find that the vote count of the previous elections was wrong," he added.


Marcos earlier said the recount of votes would begin in three pilot provinces—Iloilo, Camarines Sur, and Negros Oriental, where there were allegedly "more than a million undervotes," or ballots that contained votes for president but not for vice president.


Robredo got 664,190 votes in Camarines Sur as against Marcos' 41,219. Robredo also beat Marcos in Negros Oriental, 255,598 to 66,506; as well as in Iloilo, 137,662 to 33,778.


"The best evidence is the ballot box. I want to show that the Comelec (Commission on Elections) results were inaccurate," Marcos said.


In his protest, Marcos assailed the election results in 39,221 clustered precincts. He paid P66 million for a recount in 36,465 clustered precincts, and wants the results annulled for the remaining 2,756.


Robredo has a counter-protest, with the provinces of Capiz, Sulu and North Cotabato as her pilot recount areas. She was ordered to pay P16 million for her recount.




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"I was robbed of 4M votes" - Bongbong Marcos