Teddy Boy’s gone soft EDITORIAL 06/04/2010

Teddy Boy’s gone soft

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 06/04/2010 How things can change in a few days. Makati Rep. Teddy Boy Locsin who was fire and brimstone two weeks past in the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms hearing on the alleged massive electoral fraud in the past elections after a representative of poll supplier Smartmatic admitted unforeseen errors in the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines during election day, was suddenly all chummying up with Smartmatic executive Cesar Flores during the last inquiry and even hinted broadly that Smartmatic will be cleared of any irregularities. Locsin said that Smartmatic has satisfied the committee’s queries related to the past elections adding that Smartmatic-TIM was able to account for the import documents of the PCOS machines and other election paraphernalia. Was he kidding? Import documents? What the funk, the House body was supposed to be investigating poll irregularities and the conclusion was that the Bureau of Customs was not cheated. What took the cake for Locsin was his statement that he finds nothing wrong with Smartmatic providing the automated poll services in the next elections in 2013. That’s hard to top as an endorsement. Smartmatic with the Locsin House body’s clearance would get its ticket home, PCOS and all, along with the P7 billion Filipinos paid for its lousy services in providing the automated system for the May 10 polls. The nation would be left like a stunned robbery victim when eventually the whole scale of either fraud or the defects of the automated system is realized.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100604com1.html

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