Time for accountability
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
It really is time for someone to sue the pants off Smartmatic, and definitely the Commission on Elections (Comelec) too, because it is very clear that they really screwed up the 2010 presidential polls, not to mention the village polls, even as they try to get away with the fraud by claiming that the nation had “clean and honest” automated polls.
They really have to be sued, and the Ombudsman really should look into this case very seriously, because if probes and cases are left to the Comelec, or even the Congress, nothing but nothing will come out of such allegations and investigations, despite the evidence of clear fraud that has been unfolding.
And the reason nothing comes out of it is the fact that the proclaimed winners, both in Malacañang and Congress, aren’t likely to get to the bottom of the cheating, as some of them may be found to have lost the elections.
Even the Supreme Court, in presidential poll protests, never once resolved such protests, always claiming that, as the protestants have chosen to run for the Senate, they are deemed to have abandoned their protests, which is much too unfair, considering that millions in pesos have been poured by the protestants to get their protests resolved, and for the people to know if the official seated is the true elected official that the people had voted for..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101101com2.html
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