The perfect crime? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/21/2010

The perfect crime?

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/21/2010 Cesar Flores of Smartmatic and his partner, the Commission on Elections (Comelec), have a ready answer on allegations of automated fraud committed last May 10, 2010: Show me the evidence of cheating — even just one piece of proof of electronic cheating. There is plenty of evidence — all staring them in the face, but no matter what is shown — even documentary proof showing different voting and transmittal dates — this is dismissed as just glitches. But no matter how much they deny it, there certainly was fraud — and massive, too — committed during the last polls, and they certainly know it, but refuse to admit it. The fact alone that neither Smartmatic nor Comelec officials were upfront with the people is more than enough evidence that not only were they hiding a lot of things from the Filipino people, but that they also had every intention to manipulate the vote for certain preferred candidates. From the start, both the poll body and Smartmatic kept on insisting that these precinct count optical scan machines cannot be hacked, but a forensic examination of the 60 PCOS machines that were found in the Antipolo home of a Smartmatic technician showed a “secret backdoor” or a port called console which opens the door for easy manipulation of votes, and widescale fraud. An IT expert, Roberto Verzola of Halalang Marangal, another poll watchdog group, pointed out that the “newly-discovered backdoor” in the PCOS machine, as discovered during the forensic examination, allows untraceable manipulation of its operations, as the console in the PCOS found, claimed by Smartmatic to serve as an output, has input capabilities.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100621com2.html

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