Ghost precincts, ghost votes FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/24/2010

Ghost precincts, ghost votes

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/24/2010 Ghost precincts certainly exist, and it would do no good for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to deny this, especially as it was Smartmatic and its site surveyors that came out with this report of non-existent polling precincts. It stands to reason that, since it is Smartmatic that has been contracted — said at an additiona cost of half a billion pesos — by the Comelec for it to deliver the ballots in all these precincts, the list of precincts came from no one else but the poll body itself, and when these sites were surveyed, these precincts were not found. And if not found as listed, they are clearly non-existent, and therefore are ghost precincts. But Comelec, through its spokesman, James Jimenez, quickly said that this claim of ghost precincts in the country and even in Metro Manila, was absolutely false, despite the fact that Smartmatic surveyors failed to locate 57 polling centers that are school sites-based.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100424com2.html

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