Deliberate fraud? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/28/2010

Deliberate fraud?

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/28/2010 From all indications, and from the way the warts of the automated election system have been showing up in the National Board of Canvassers (NBoC), and with public suspicion of massive automated election fraud rising, the system fell wide open to the cheating syndicate that can still be found in the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Chances are high that Smartmatic and the high ranking Comelec officials know, from the start, that the system would fail, given the fact that there certainly was full agreement on the part of Smartmatic, Comelec and even its poll watchdog, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, to do away with virtually all the safety features which could have helped in eliminating, if not minimizing the fraud. From the start, there was reluctance on the part of these three bodies to have anybody check on the source code. When they claimed they were ready to open up, it was already much too late. Then too, there was that last minute reconfiguration of the flash cards which was done again in virtual secrecy, since party representatives were not even alerted and asked to watch the process. In fact, there was no machine testing at all after that reconfiguration. That appears pretty suspicious. Even the PPCRV’s Random Manual Count was done in virtual secrecy..... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100528com2.html

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