DND chief claims fraud but won’t make move
By Mario J. Mallari 06/03/2010 Avowed junta disciple acting Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales expressed belief that cheating happened during the country’s first ever fully-automated presidential elections last May 10 and said he is collecting data to prove it. “Do you believe that there was no cheating? I believe cheating happened,” Gonzales said during a chance interview during an event yesterday hosted by Manila Water at Camp Aguinaldo. “There are definitely defi-ciencies in those machines, there are deficiencies in transmissions, there are manipulations in the elections, there are fake ballots in the last elections,” said Gonzales. But with less then 30 days in office, Gonzales admitted he could not do anything about alleged manipulation of the last May 10 polls. Last May 12 or two days after the actual voting, Gonzales initially assessed the overall holding of the polls as “credible for now.” Gonzales, however, maintained that he is not after interfering in the results of the election which, based on congressional canvassing, was topped by Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino. “Let’s really examine what happened in the elections, it is not about favoring somebody or not or whether we can still interfere in the result of the election, the election is already over,” Gonzales said. “…it may not stand up in court but we have to find the truth, we owe it to our people to show what really happened in the last elections. Just like other critics of the automated elections, Gonzales cited “deficiencies” on the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used during the elections and the use of fake ballots.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100603hed6.html |
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