Section 5
SEC. 5. Fifty days immediately prior to the date of regular election, the Commission on Elections shall, directly or through its authorized provincial representatives, appoint a board of election inspectors for each election precinct, to be composed of three inspectors and a poll clerk, who shall hold office until their successors are appointed for the next regular election, unless they are sooner relieved. The appointment of one inspector and his substitute and the poll clerk and his substitute shall be proposed by the party which polled the largest number of votes at the preceding election, as hereinbelow specified, and one inspector and his substitute shall be proposed by the party which polled the next largest number of votes, if the same constitute at least ten per centum of the total number of votes cast in the said election. If the board of election inspectors to be appointed is for a regular election of national officials, only the votes obtained by candidates for national offices in the last election for said offices in the legislative district shall be counted, and if the board of election inspectors is to be appointed for a regular election of local officials, only the votes obtained by provincial and municipal candidates in the last election for local offices in the respective city or municipality shall be counted. The third inspector and his substitute shall be chosen by the Commission on Elections, and said third inspector shall be the chairman of the board. The national directorates of political parties shall appoint their respective representatives in each legislative district, at least ten days before the date fixed for the appointment of the board of election inspectors, the names and addresses of the persons whom they propose to be appointed as election inspectors. If said representatives shall fail to propose the names of persons to be appointed as election inspectors or no political party is entitled to propose the appointment of either inspectors or poll clerks, the Commission shall, at its discretion, choose said inspectors or poll clerks and their substitutes.