Section 11
SEC. 11. The Commission on Elections shall canvass the results for Senators as soon as the statements are received from every province and city but not later than May twenty, nineteen hundred and forty-six. The sixteen registered candidates who obtained the largest number of votes for the office of Senator shall be proclaimed elected. In case it shall appear from the results of the canvass of the votes for Senators that two or more candidates have received the same number of votes for the sixteenth place, the Commission on Elections, after recording this fact in the corresponding statement, shall, upon three days notice to all the tied candidates so that they or their duly authorized representatives may be present if they so desire, hold another public session at which they shall proceed to the drawing of lots of the candidates who have tied and shall proclaim the candidate who may be favored by luck. The candidate so proclaimed shall have the right to assume office in the same manner as if he had been elected by plurality vote. The Commission on Elections shall forthwith make a statement of the procedure followed in the drawing of lots, of its result, and of the subsequent proclamation. Certified copies of said statement shall be sent by registered mail to the Secretary of the Senate and to each of the tied candidates.