Binay warns vs fake ballots 04/08/2010

Binay warns vs fake ballots

04/08/2010 United Opposition vice presidential candidate Jejomar Binay yesterday warned the Commission on Elections as well as the watchdog groups that would monitor the polls next month that a flood of fake ballots will most likely swamp thousands of precincts on Election Day following reports that the Comelec will be buying ultraviolet (UV) lamps to scan ballots before they are processed by the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines. “UV markers can easily be purchased, so we can expect that there will be a lot of fake ballots that will be branded with these UV seals that will be passed off as genuine,” he said. He noted that the solution of the Comelec — to use UV lamps to scan the ballots, which should have initially been a function of the PCOS machines — adds another layer of human intervention to the already time-strapped system. This makes the entire process vulnerable to cheating by the usual suspects, he added.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100408hed5.html

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