No choice but for manual count
If Smartmatic’s counting machines can botch something like the total figure of the country’s electorate, a given, how much more can it be relied upon to provide an accurate count of the past elections? The National Board of Canvassers (NBoC) should treat the P7 billion that was spent for the automated polls contract and all the additional trouble that went with it as a loss charged to experience but which needs to be recovered, however, since the leadership of the country was at stake here. And salvaging the country’s future from that disastrous adventure can be done only by going into the count manually, no matter how long it takes. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) which seems bent on covering up any Smartmatic foul-up should be forced to come clean on the state of the machines’ dysfunction but which the supplier still insists to be fool-proof. It was already established in an earlier House of Representatives inquiry that the transmission of data was not as iron clad as what Smartmatic had tried to present its system due to time stamp errors, which, based on several testimonies, including that of koala boy, were exploited to switch transmitted election results. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100528com1.html |
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