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TWG warns poll body vs fake ballots, sabotage By Ninez Cacho-Olivares Editor-in-chief 02/25/2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010


Comelec without safeguards, anti-fraud firm tapped enjoys support of election syndicate

TWG warns poll body vs fake ballots, sabotage


By Ninez Cacho-Olivares Editor-in-chief
02/25/2010

The 2010 presidential elections in May will likely be marred by massive electoral cheating, a warning that has been earlier aired by the poll body’s Technical Working Group (TWG), in a report to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc.

The anti-fraud company that is supposed to embed through advanced technological and electronic devices which will consist of the safeguards to prevent the use of fake ballots, the BTI Advantage Inc. (BTIE) which has reportedly been favored by the Comelec was pointed to by the TWG to the poll body as “enjoying the support of the powerful (cheating) syndicate in the Comelec.”

The BTIE, according to the same report which was updated on Feb. 3, 2010, “was able to block the notice of award for mysterious reasons” and because it is only Smartmatic and the National Printing Office (NPO) that have their own “safeguards,” and with Comelec having none at all, “Comelec is totally ‘naked’ now.”... MORE


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