No worries? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/04/2010

No worries? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/04/2010 One would think, from the way poll body Chairman Jose Melo speaks, that he is the expert of all automation experts when he tells the media that there is no way the Smartmatic-TIM Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines can be hacked, along with his claim that nothing — save an earthquake — can cause the failure of elections. As for the 40,000 zombie voters found in the final voters’ list in Davao City and Davao del Sur, which would be the same elsewhere in the country, he dismisses this, saying that these are not double registrants but are voters who re-registered in another barangay without canceling their old registration. But hello, some prominent names appearing in that list bared by the PPCRV changed their addresses? C’mon.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100304com2.html

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