Pushing electoral protests FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/10/2010

Pushing electoral protests

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/10/2010 Sen. Mar Roxas should go ahead and file an electoral protest, in the national interest, rather than just his challenging Vice President-elect Jojo Binay’s victory. He should do it for the sake of the millions who had voted for him, and even those who did not vote for him. For that matter, all other presidential candidates who have found the automated election system much too prone to electronic fraud, as it has been found during the congressional probe that ended recently, should join in the electoral protest, even if they know they did not win the race. More importantly, the Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, shouldn’t sit on these electoral protests and wait it out until Roxas, for instance, runs for a Senate seat again in 2013 which has characterized the PET too many times in the past. The reason is simple: The Filipino people must know, not so much who really won the vice presidential race, or the presidential race, for that matter, but more to have the Filipinos know just how much their soveriegn will has been trampled upon — through the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its partner, Smartmatic-TIM. It has always been said that the people’s voice through the ballot is the supreme authority and law — even higher than the Constitution. It is time that the people’s voice is respected and not nullified by the automated machines, Smartmatic technicians, Comelec IT cheats, as well as the Comelec commissioners and executives’ incompetence and even deliberately opening the automated system to widescale electronic fraud.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100610com2.html

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