Ensuring fraud and poll failure FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/07/2010

Ensuring fraud and poll failure FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/07/2010 For a body that claims it wants to conduct fraud-free, peaceful and orderly elections come May 10, 2010, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is certainly doing its best to ensure fraudulent and disorderly polls marked with violence, which is much too strange. The truth is, the Comelec had a lot of time to ensure honest and orderly polls — even under an automation system. It had even more time to cleanse that voters registration list of double, multiple, dead and other ineligible registrants, yet Comelec never did so, even when its officials certainly know that year after election year, more ghost voters are added to the voters’ list.   Even more strange is the fact that despite being shown glaring evidence of double, multiple and dead registrants on one city and province amounting to 40,000, and by its accredited watchdog yet, there went the Comelec officials, rejecting the idea of expunging these registrants from the list, saying they cannot exclude them, as they have no authority to do so, since it is the courts that have that authority to come up with exclusion proceedings — an excuse which is clearly a lot bull.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100307com2.html

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