Stealing the vote EDITORIAL 05/25/2010

Stealing the vote

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 05/25/2010 When it comes to propaganda and spins, you have to hand it to Noynoy Aquino and the Liberal Party (LP)’s propagandists. They — and that includes their presidential bet, Noynoy — don’t want accuracy of the count. They want speed over accuracy, which would have a speedy proclamation of Noynoy as president-elect, whether or not he really won the presidential race. As proof that he had won, they point to the surveys and the exit polls showing Noynoy to be a runaway winner, as well as having won in the electronic count by both the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), which, it should be stressed, is based on flawed election returns. But why should these equally questionable surveys and exit polls be the determining factor of the accuracy of the count, or even for proclamation purposes by the Congress?  From the start, it was much too evident that the survey firms were clearly into trending. It was just as clear that they were making sure former President Joseph Estrada was way down in the count. When it was clear that Estrada was a pretty strong candidate, all too suddenly, he was in the number 2 slot, but still with a very small survey vote compared to the LP bet. The fact alone that the unofficial electronic count, based on fraudulent precinct count, showed the same winning margins shown by the exit polls and earlier surveys is already much too questionable and speaks of monkey business. How on earth can honest survey figures and margins match the fraudulent electronic count? It boggles the mind that, on the basis of fraudulent precinct count, the margins of the winning candidate in relation to the other candidates, the unofficial election count jibes with the survey results. So was cheating done to match the survey margins? Pre-determined results would be a more plausible reason for having such an exact margin percentage between the survey result and the fraudulent count result. Surveys and fraudulent electronic count can hardly be the proof of Aquino having won credibly and honestly the presidency and on this basis, he insists on his being proclaimed president by the Congress speedily. It can hardly be denied that the biggest beneficiary of this massive cheating operations is Noynoy Aquino. Like it or not too, he has the same political operators of Gloria with him today.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune   URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100525com8.html

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