Bedol: Caught the second time around.

Bedol, who was suspended from his job, was also implicated in an alleged vote fraud in Mindanao during the hotly contested May 2004 presidential election that Mrs. Arroyo won.

His name was mentioned in recorded conversations between a woman sounding like Mrs. Arroyo and a man believed to be another poll official, Virgilio Garcillano, in which it appeared they were plotting to rig the votes.

The President had denied the accusation, but publicly apologized for what she said was poor judgment on her part. The controversy led to two failed impeachment attempts in Congress and a mass resignation of half her Cabinet.


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Bedol is already in the custody of our policemen. We are just avoiding giving further announcements because the media will surely be all over him. I would say that we will bring him to Comelec [Commission on Elections] as soon as possible. Maybe even before [Tuesday], Calderon said.

It was Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police director, who said Bedol was arrested at a clinic in Maguindanao midnight Sunday.

Goltiao said Bedol did not resist policemen who served the arrest order issued Saturday by the Comelec en banc. The arrest order gave the police until July 3 to present Bedol.

He said Bedol underwent a minor eye operation in the clinic and was resting when arrested.



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There are some people who really doesn't learn. If the first election fraud claims were true, he may hve gotten a large mass of money that urged him to do this second election fraud.

but, He was accused for the first time in 2004, that means, you really cant get away with it. why do it again? for money? well, understandable but, rot in hell if you really did it.

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