Questions raised on authenticity on authenticity
By Gerry Baldo 05/28/2010 Despite questions raised against the authenticity of the Certificates of Canvass (CoC) the Joint congressional committee on the canvass of votes for president and vice president pushed through yesterday with the opening of the ballot boxes containing votes from overseas Filipinos. The first ballot box which was opened was from Laos. Senate President Juan Ponce started the canvassing with the opening of the ballot box received May 11, 2010 containing the CoC from the Kingdom of Laos. Earlier, Maguindanao Rep. Didagen Dilangalen, a panel member, had questioned the authenticity of the electronically transmitted CoCs even as he cited the lack of certification from the Systest Lab — an international certification entity that has to certify that election equipment to be used in the May 10, 2010 polls are properly operating, secure and accurate. “Are we ready to accept that the electronically transmitted CoCs, now in the halls of Congress, are authentic, genuine, and dully executed?” Dilangalen asked members of the panel of which he is a member, saying that the law is very clear in that the certification must state that the automated election system (AES), including its hardware and software component, is operating properly, securely and accurately. Dilangalen pointed out that Systest Lab concluded extensive source for review, documentation review, hardware and functional testing, volume stress and transmission testing to provide the Comelec with the information needed to certify the automated elections system. But, apparently, the Comelec and Smartmatic failed to comply with the conditions called for by Systest Lab. He said that while the system conforms to key requirements and is operationally suitable for use, “there is no categorical certification that it is operating properly, securely and accurately.” As the joint congressional canvassing of the results dragged for the fourth straight day without a single CoC being opened, Speaker Prosporo Nograles yesterday questioned the technical capability of Smartmatic in replacing all the Compact Flash (CF) cards it found to be defective in the 76,000 voting precincts all over the country. At the resumption of the canvassing of both chambers of Congress sitting as the NBoC, Speaker Nograles said that unless Smartmatic has more than 30,000 personnel deployed all over the country to replace the defective CF cards, there is no way the process could have been completed in three days as the contractor of the automated elections claims. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100528hed1.html |
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