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Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor-designate lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano. (PNA file photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental does not have the authority to transfer the votes earned by a nuisance candidate, who has been disqualified from the elections to the legitimate poll bet. In an interview on Thursday, lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, made the clarification amid complaints and verifications from some quarters on the defeat of incumbent Gov. Roel Degamo in the May 9 elections. Degamo (Nacionalista Party) lost to Bayawan City Mayor Pryde Henry Teves (Nationalist People's Coalition) by 19,546 votes. The incumbent chief executive earned 281,773 votes while the Bayawan mayor earned 301,319 votes, records at the provincial Comelec here showed. Degamo's camp, however, said the incumbent governor is the rightful winner if the votes of a nuisa