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Buying a pig in the poke FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/02/2012

Monday, April 2, 2012

Buying a pig in the poke

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
04/02/2012
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Malacaang that will no doubt benefit from it, are in for a lot of trouble come election day, mainly because using the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines, defective as they, are prone to facilitate even bigger electoral fraud in 2013.

Also, the Comelec, despite a new leadership, is really not ready to conduct PCOS-style elections.

What is likely to occur is more cheating, since these machines have no safeguards, as proven in the last polls where these machines were used, apart from the fact that the errors, despite the claims of the Comelec chief that the errors were human errors, are in reality, mostly machine errors, with the usual Comelec cheating syndicate up on its toes in perfecting its electoral fraud scheme.

More problems are bound to surface, as the Comelec commissioners have hardly any clue on how to conduct automated polls..... MORE

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