When returns are incomplete or bear erasures or alterations.
Section 166-B
SEC. 166-B. When returns are incomplete or bear erasures or alterations.—When the certificate of election returns for every election for President and Vice-President, duly certified by the board of canvassers of each province or city, and transmitted to the President of the Senate as provided for in the Constitution, appears to be incomplete, the President of the Senate shall require the board of canvassers concerned to transmit to his office, by personal delivery, the statement from precincts that were not included in the returns transmitted. Said supplemental certificate of election returns shall be prepared and transmitted by the board of canvassers in the same manner as provided for in Section one hundred sixty hereof: Provided, That the supplemental certificate of election returns herein allowed shall reach the Senate President not later than twelve o'clock noon on the third Tuesday of December. "When it appears that any certificate of election returns or supporting statement of votes by precinct bear erasures or alterations which may cast doubt as to the veracity of the number of votes stated therein and may affect the result of the election, the Congress upon request of the presidential or vice presidential candidates concerned shall, for the sole purpose of verifying the actual number of votes cast for President or Vice-President, or for both offices, count the votes as they appear in the statements of election returns from all the precincts in the province or city in question, and for this purpose, the President of the Senate shall require the provincial or city treasurer concerned to deliver personally to the Congress the copy of such statements of election returns canvassed by the provincial or, board of canvassers; and may also require the Commission on Elections to place its copy of such statements of election returns at the disposal of Congress: