Manila, Feb. 28 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) filed a cyber libel complaint Friday against a vice mayoral candidate in Reina Mercedes town, Isabela province.

Comelec Chairperson George Garcia personally filed the complaint at the Office of the City Prosecutor in Manila against lawyer Jeryll Harold Respicio for allegedly violating Article 154 of the Revised Penal Code, in relation to Section 6 of Republic Act (RA) No. 10175, also known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act.

The complaint stemmed from a video posted by Respicio on Jan. 25 claiming that he could manipulate vote-counting machines and that there were backroom programs capable of altering election results.

"The videos uploaded by Atty. Respicio are not only sources of ...