Whither the campaign claim? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/23/2010

Whither the campaign claim?

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/23/2010 The whole point of the Filipino people being made to pay P11.3 billion for a one-shot automated election system was to eliminate fraud that nearly tore the nation apart and allowed yet another non-elected president and other lower level officials in the legislative branch of government to sit in office even when they are not seated with the real mandate of the people. This was one major reason Filipinos, even when presented by a huge election bill, hardly complained, even when they knew the bill would be passed on to them. As it is now developing, massive electronic fraud has marked the latest claimed state of the art elections, but it seems clear at this point that no one — most of all, Smartmatic, the Commission on Elections and even the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting — is willing to even admit that there was massive electronic fraud, with the Filipino people again stuck with so-called electronically elected officials, who, however, truly do not have the true mandate of the people. In other words, these same people and institutions are again willing to let the Filipino people tolerate having officials representing them, even when they never had the mandate in the first place. The point is, if we do not scrutinize all the evidence, and follow through, even if it has to lead to special elections nationwide, we will have, again and again, more and more fraudulent elections, whether automated or manual. But this is hardly what appears to matter to Noynoy Aquino, who apparently wants to have this over and done with, and for him to be proclaimed very fast by the Congress.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100523com2.html

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