Produce the PCOS machines MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/01/2010

Produce the PCOS machines

MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 06/01/2010 Jose “Pol” Quiwa III (LP) has filed an election protest before the House Electoral Tribunal against winning re-electionist Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales (Lakas-Kampi, Pampanga, 3rd district). Quiwa earlier alleged in his complaint that “BEIs and John Does conspired to manipulate precinct count optical scan machines” to favor his Lakas-Kampi rival. That brings to 36 the number of provinces and cities where electronic fraud has been charged, including Manila, Quezon City, Marikina, Pasay, Muntinlupa, Cebu, Davao, Bacolod and Cagayan de Oro. Pablo Manalastas of CenPeg, a professor at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila, pointed out that no less than Comelec Chairman Jose Melo has admitted that as much as three-digit or 270 vote discrepancies were found in the Random Manual Audit (RAM). Global Filipino Nation (GFN), a cause oriented group that deployed observers in Pampanga, Quezon and Ilolio, has come out to challenge the legitimacy of the May 10 elections, citing five cases that “put to question the authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, veracity and accuracy of the vote count.” There is more than enough reason for Congress to seriously consider all these observations before proclaiming a winner for the posts of President and Vice President. Leaving them hanging will put the proclaimed winner with nagging questions about his legitimacy which, like GMA, will hobble him from the start. q q q Errors. Comelec has also admitted that as many as 200 clustered precincts made erroneous transmissions using the defective flashcards used in the sealing and testing procedure of 10 votes per precinct. PPCRV has found 29 cases of discrepancies between the transmitted total and the result of the RMA, causing IT expert Robert Verzola to say the automated election system using PCOS machines should be junked. Worse, Cesar Flores of Smartmatic has admitted and apologized for the AES reporting to the House of Representatives a quintupled 253 million voters, not the officially registered 50.7 million voters. It also showed a total of 158 million voters in the senatorial canvass conducted by the Comelec en banc. q q q Susano wins. Despite Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin’s obvious bias, Rep. Annie Rosa Susano has successfully proven to the “whole world” that the two flashcards in her possession are genuine, that they can be opened by a laptop computer and they can be edited. An ordinary technician in the person of Alvin Sabile, assigned by Smartmatic to Quezon City, opened the flashcard in a laptop thus, making Cesar Flores a “liar” when he claimed that it cannot be done.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100601com4.html

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