Deliberate fraud EDITORIAL 06/30/2010

Deliberate fraud

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/30/2010 It was fairly obvious that, from the start, there was the deliberate intent to commit electoral fraud and on a massive electronic scale. The signs were there early enough: The insistence of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners to ensure that Smartmatic would get the P7.3-billion contract for the automated system, to the point of even pressuring its local partner, TIM, to get the partnership sealed again; the hiding from the public, via the Congress, of the many changes in the terms and conditions of the contract; the extra 6,000 auto machines that were not utilized with their whereabouts undisclosed; refusal of the poll body to clean up the voters’ list; Comelec and Smartmatic’s disabling of all the security features; the insistence that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines are “unhackable” and that no cheating can occur, while Smartmatic and .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100630com1.html

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