All signs point to massive electronic fraud EDITORIAL 06/10/2010

All signs point to massive electronic fraud

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/10/2010 Probably the best testimony given before the House committee panel probing allegations of electronic fraud as well as the sins of the poll body and its partner, Smartmatic, was that of Jonathan Manalang of LRA Pacific, a call center whose services were subcontracted by Smartmatic as a support group. Reports said he testified that the call center received calls from technicians needing help or updates on the progress of the polls, as well as reports from them on results transmission.  Manalang was quoted as saying that it was strange that the Commission on Elections (Comelec), close to midnight, was already announcing that half of the results were already in, even when the call center received reports of electronic vote transmission only at 9 p.m. and that these were only a handful. Twenty percent of the results, the testimony went, came in by 3 a.m. From where then did the Comelec get its 50 percent figures of the precinct vote when there were as yet no reports of such transmissions? Smartmatic, which is hardly consistent in its answers as it keeps on changing its stories everytime it is caught lying, claimed that not all of the technicians reported the transmission of election results on time and that there were times when transmissions were done directly from the precint count optical scan (PCOS) but that these were not reported to the call center. That’s a pretty lame answer. Even more telling is the fact that it was admitted by Cesar Flores of Smartmatic that the compact flash (CF) cards could be used again to scan and read ballots already scanned, which translates opening the doors to a manipulation of votes. This begs the question: What then was the purpose of replacing all those 72,000 CF cards, which were said to have been programmed some four days before the polls, and even progammed by DoST technicians who have no mandate to do such?... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100610com1.html

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