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Election official says he did not collude with Arroyo

MANILA: The Philippine election commissioner said he did not conspire with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to rig the 2004 presidential election, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. But with the country consumed by “Gloriagate”, military intelligence officials were asked on Wednesday to testify at a House of Representatives inquiry into a taped conversation between Arroyo and Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. The commissioner said he talked to opposition politicians as well as Arroyo as ballots were being counted in the May, 2004 election that the president won by more than 1 million votes. Recordings of that conversation produced by Arroyo’s rivals to bolster their claims of election cheating had been edited, Garcillano said. “Tell the people that the conversations that have publicly come out of the tapes are untrue. Many of the conversations were doctored,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a telephone interview. reuters

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