Source: The Daily Tribune
Ado Paglinawan
Civil society groups are coming up with a more concrete move to address election fraud in the country and prevent the same problems that have been prevalent in the 2010 and 2013 automated elections.
In a rare convergence of ideas at a forum held in a Quezon City hotel recently, the civil society groups with the media present, appeared to have had a meeting of the minds to address election glitches and eliminate automated election fraud.
Ado Paglinawan, convenor of Tanggulan sa Demokrasya (Tandem), explained to his colleagues, who have been airing their grievances against the election fraud, that they have to make a concrete move in order to address the problem that has not been properly looked into by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
The groups that met recently revealed that even if they continue to air their findings of fraud and glitches by the precint count optical scan (PCOS) machines which were purchased by the Comelec from Smartmatic Inc., this still won’t sink in among the populace.
Paglinawan suggested during the forum that there should be a nationwide petition signing to once and for all expose those who are involved in the anomalous results of the last 2010 and 2013 elections.
He said the giver of the P30 million intelligence funds to the Comelec should be punished and should include the recipient which is the poll body itself.
Athough the “giver’s” name was not mentioned, it was evident that the giver referred to President Aquino, as this was admitted by Aquino’s deputy spokesman, Abigail Valte, who said Aquino had given Comelec chief Sixto Brillantes, Jr., P30 million supposedly for Comelec’s intelligence funds.
Comelec, is however barred by law to have any intelligence funds and the President is also barred from giving Comelec the P30 million from the funds of the Office of the President.
It is believed that the P30 million given to the Comelec by Aquino was intended to ensure that his senatorial candidates would emerge as majority winners in the Senate race.
“We should start a signing campaign to impeach the giver of the P30 million intelligence funds and the recipient that should include Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr.,” said Paglinawan.
Participants in the forum seemed to agree with the proposal because they apparently know that if they will not do something to address the matter the same problems will be experienced in the 2016 elections.
The petition signing would be launched by the concerned groups as soon as possible since they believe that the present leaders of the country should be unmasked as they have a strong feeling that they should not be the one leading the country.
For one, former Biliran Congressman Glen Chiong blurted that he will not pay his taxes to a bogus government.
The former solon disclosed that they managed to get some evidence that the network provided by Smartmatic can be manipulated, based on their experience in the 2010 elections.
He said that they monitored two transmission coming from different sources and they could not trace the source of the transmission.
Ernie del Rosario, an IT expert and was a former Comelec official, said the machines supplied by Smartmatic have not been corrected of errors experienced in the 2010 elections.
The correct thing, according to Del Rosario is that errors should have been noted and corrected because the government purchased these PCOS machines with hundreds of millions of people’s money.
However, the poll body seemed to have given the go signal for the supplier to just let have Smartmatic run the machinism, which the groups pointed out, now our elections are under the control of the supplier.
One of the attendees in the forum urged the civil society groups to move fast and present to the people their findings supported with evidence so they will be labeled as mere “cry-babies.”
By Alvin Murcia
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Source: The Daily Tribune
Civil society groups and IT experts yes-terday blasted the fraud committed in the just concluded May 13 midterm elections which they said was a mere extension of the automated cheating in the 2010 elections that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) did nothing to prevent.
In a forum held at the Hotel Rembrandt in Quezon City yesterday, lawyer Melchor Magdamo a former Comelec official, admitted that overprinting of ballots was being done when he was still with the poll body.
But he said that the extra ballots are meant as a standby thing to be used in areas that has a failure of elections which was usually in the ARMM and in other Mindanao areas.
However, he clarified that the overprinting of ballots done by the Comelec in the 2013 polls was a case of the poll body abusing its authority to print millions of extra ballots which was done at the Holy Family printing press.
For Ado Paglinawan, convenor of Tanggulang Demokrasya (Tandem), President Aquino’s Daang Matuwid leads straight to hell because the country’s sovereignty is at stake during the elections which were marred by fraud and malfunctioning precinct-count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
The group said that with the glaring errors and evidence of fraud, the results of the 2010 and 2013 elections were a farce and the persons governing the nation were elected by machines supplied by the foreign country not by the sovereign people of the Philippines.
Paglinawan cited the 60-30-10 trend that favors the senatorial candidates of the administration wherein the supposedly pre-programmed results as shown by the pattern was seen in almost all regions.
Paglinawan said that for one, last May 18 the Comelec reviewed some 129 certificates of canvass (CoCs) wherein eventual topnothcer Grace Poe garnered 20 million votes but in the June 7 CoCs in which 58 percent of votes has been canvassed, the votes for Poe were added only with more than 100,000 votes which is highly suspicious.
He added that what strikes them most is the canvassing of 304 CoCs that showed some 94 million people were able to vote.
“The adjustment was defective since instead of Poe’s vote increasing, these were reduced as the canvassing progresses and there was a time that her votes went down to 16 million,” Paglinawan said.
The Tandem convenor theorized that there was indeed some misgivings in the 2013 elections since there were still 18,000 precincts left to be canvassed by the Comelec since only 59,667 clustered precincts has been shown to have undergone tallying.
For his part, Ernie del Rosario, IT expert and also a former Comelec official, said that there was a big possibility that the PCOS machines were preloaded with the program since the source code has not been shown to parties who sought a review of the code.
He said Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr., other poll officials and representatives of Smartmatic, the supplier of the PCOS machines, only showed the media the disc that they said contained the source code but the code itself was never inspected.
Another IT expert, Toti Carino, said that the same thing happened in the 2010 elections wherein some 9,000 PCOS machines were missing and they observed in Bacoor, Cavite in the 2013 elections that there was no transmission of results but there were proclamations of winners.
Carino ask how this could happen when there was no transmission of results to the transparency server.
He said the Comelec is fooling the people because what happened in the 2010 elections also happened in the 2013 elections. “We are being fooled by the Comelec because the program they used in 2010 is the same program used in the May 2013 elections,” Carino said.
He also scored the Random Manual Audit conducted by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting and Comelec which was conducted two months after the elections.
In a forum held at the Hotel Rembrandt in Quezon City yesterday, lawyer Melchor Magdamo a former Comelec official, admitted that overprinting of ballots was being done when he was still with the poll body.
But he said that the extra ballots are meant as a standby thing to be used in areas that has a failure of elections which was usually in the ARMM and in other Mindanao areas.
However, he clarified that the overprinting of ballots done by the Comelec in the 2013 polls was a case of the poll body abusing its authority to print millions of extra ballots which was done at the Holy Family printing press.
For Ado Paglinawan, convenor of Tanggulang Demokrasya (Tandem), President Aquino’s Daang Matuwid leads straight to hell because the country’s sovereignty is at stake during the elections which were marred by fraud and malfunctioning precinct-count optical scan (PCOS) machines.
The group said that with the glaring errors and evidence of fraud, the results of the 2010 and 2013 elections were a farce and the persons governing the nation were elected by machines supplied by the foreign country not by the sovereign people of the Philippines.
Paglinawan cited the 60-30-10 trend that favors the senatorial candidates of the administration wherein the supposedly pre-programmed results as shown by the pattern was seen in almost all regions.
Paglinawan said that for one, last May 18 the Comelec reviewed some 129 certificates of canvass (CoCs) wherein eventual topnothcer Grace Poe garnered 20 million votes but in the June 7 CoCs in which 58 percent of votes has been canvassed, the votes for Poe were added only with more than 100,000 votes which is highly suspicious.
He added that what strikes them most is the canvassing of 304 CoCs that showed some 94 million people were able to vote.
“The adjustment was defective since instead of Poe’s vote increasing, these were reduced as the canvassing progresses and there was a time that her votes went down to 16 million,” Paglinawan said.
The Tandem convenor theorized that there was indeed some misgivings in the 2013 elections since there were still 18,000 precincts left to be canvassed by the Comelec since only 59,667 clustered precincts has been shown to have undergone tallying.
For his part, Ernie del Rosario, IT expert and also a former Comelec official, said that there was a big possibility that the PCOS machines were preloaded with the program since the source code has not been shown to parties who sought a review of the code.
He said Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr., other poll officials and representatives of Smartmatic, the supplier of the PCOS machines, only showed the media the disc that they said contained the source code but the code itself was never inspected.
Another IT expert, Toti Carino, said that the same thing happened in the 2010 elections wherein some 9,000 PCOS machines were missing and they observed in Bacoor, Cavite in the 2013 elections that there was no transmission of results but there were proclamations of winners.
Carino ask how this could happen when there was no transmission of results to the transparency server.
He said the Comelec is fooling the people because what happened in the 2010 elections also happened in the 2013 elections. “We are being fooled by the Comelec because the program they used in 2010 is the same program used in the May 2013 elections,” Carino said.
He also scored the Random Manual Audit conducted by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting and Comelec which was conducted two months after the elections.
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