THE camp of Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo asked the Supreme Court to dismiss a petition by former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. to stop the High Court, sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), from using ballot images in the poll recount, saying that questioning it was useless.

In an urgent counter manifestation with comment and opposition to Marcos’ July 16 plea, Vice President Robredo’s camp argued that Marcos could not move to exclude the ballot images as evidence, considering that in his preliminary conference brief, he said that the manual recount of the 2016 Vice Presidential race stemming from his protest against Robredo’s victory should include the official ballots and ballot images.