Melo successor urged to unlock poll secrets
By Pat C. Santos 01/16/2011Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo’s resignation took effect yesterday and the clamor for the next head of the poll body to make public the true results of the just held national elections that saw President Aquino winning by a comfortable margin started to gather steam.
A workers’ poll watchdog dared the successor of Melo to unlock the many “secrets” of the May 10, 2010 automated polls and to hold those accountable for the anomalies that may have occurred.
Workers’ Electoral Watch (WE Watch), a network of workers advocating fraud-free elections, pitched this challenge to the next Comelec chief as it issued yesterday the Automated Election System (AES) Evaluation and Policy Recommendations.
Melo served for close to three years as Comelec chairman that covered the the holding of the first fully automated national elections, which many suspects to have been tainted with electronically generated fraud..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110116hed4.html
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