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Election for sale
Ex-poll execs sell ‘victory’ for P12M to P200M
posted May 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
by Christine F. Herrera, Joel Zurbano, Macon Ramos-Araneta and Maricel V. Cruz
INFORMATION technology expert and former Biliran congressman Glenn Chong bared evidence Friday that former poll executives had sold guaranteed victories to candidates who could be “programmed to win” in the May 9 automated elections.
At the Contra Canvass forum in Quezon City, Chong, vice chairman and spokesman of the election watchdog Reform Philippines Coalition, said he has received a video showing how a former election officer was selling the system to a politician in the Visayas.
“I have heard of the system being sold for P12 million to one candidate to as high as P200 million depending on the number of candidates programmed to win, but this is the first time I have received a concrete evidence of how it was peddled to candidates,” Chong stated.
Showing a screen grab of the video, Chong said the former election officer offered to make the candidate win by giving him the database of voters in his area.
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The election officer would then replace the discarded voters with other names complete with biometrics, and these would be used to rig the elections. ...
“Of course the candidate will just retain the names of his supporters in the database and discard those from the other party. That is the reason many were disenfranchised with names missing or transferred on Election Day,” Chong said.
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He also said he received many feelers from witnesses of election fraud and that he was in the process of evaluating each one, including any evidence they could produce. ...
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Chong said international election expert and election book author Douglas Jones, a professor at the University of Iowa, said undervotes should not exceed 1 percent of the total votes cast.
He said that according to Jones, if the number of undervotes reaches 5 percent, it is suspicious and if it reaches 10 percent, it is highly suspicious.
“In the recent polls, the undervotes recorded were at 3.3 million for vice president. That means some 8.43 percent did not vote for vice president,” he said.
Chong said the 8.43 percent undervote was way past the “suspicious category” and near the category of “highly suspicious.”
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Chong said that given the very suspicious high number of undervotes, and the unauthorized introduction of a new script in the transmission server after the polls closed, “it is safe to say that indeed the May elections were not credible.”
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By not agreeing to a systems audit, Chong said, Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista and the other commissioners were liable for obstruction of justice ...
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“How can this happen when Smartmatic assured us that their machines are accurate and reliable?” Garcia said.
“It’s their obligation to the Filipino people. They were the ones who supplied to us the machines, they were the ones who supplied to us the system, they were the ones who assured that it will be 99.9996 percent accurate, then an explanation is a must,” he added.
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“It’s true that some voters opted not to vote for a certain position and that’s normal. But take note of the percentage, that’s 3.2 million voters who did not vote for vice president,” said Garcia.
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