Biliran elections supervisor denies rigging polls results

Sori sir, klaro kaau nga nabayran ka kay bisan naa pre proclamation protest nga gipasabot sa imo, nag insist ka pagproklamar and your advice to the counsel of Cong. Glen Chong is just to file a protest, but you will proceed with the proclamation. Klaro kaau sir, ayaw mi pag uwata kay naka save ang video ana, amo gibalikbalik pa pagtan aw. To file an election protest will take almost 3 years just like what happened to the late Atty. Parilla’s case who was proven to be the real winner as mayor. The same style ang gibuhat sa mga Espina karon, because nabayran ka. klaro kaau oi.

NAG PA ILAD NAPOD ANG MGA BILIRANON SA MGA ESPINA

2004 Election

ning lamano na si Espina kang anhing Danny Parilla, kay ning dawat na sa iyang kapildihan, pero pag ka buntag kalit gi proklama si Gerry Espina.

Gi unsa pag mani ubra ni Espina?

1. Iyang gi konsabo ang Comelec Mr. Deonilo Pantas ug uban pa apil na ang BEI ani.

2. wala ning sugot ang BEI, pero wala naman siyay mahimo kay nag pasalig man ang Tiguwang sa iyaha.

3. Nagpadala ug Election Return (ER) ang Comelec Manila., ug gisuwatan ang ER pabor kang Gerry Espina

mao ni ang naka daog kang Gerry Espina Sr. nadaog lang sa limbong.

Election 2010

1. Si Atty Japson ug ang mga technician sa smartmatic gitagaan ug regalo sa mga espina.

2. Gi Offeran si Glenn Chong ug 15million sa taga Smartmatic, pero wala siya ning sugot kay confident ra kaayo siya na modaog ug dili ganahan ug limbong. 2million taga Lungsod ang offer sa smartmatic.

3. Sa dihang wala ning sugot si Glenn Chong sa offer. ning duol sila kang Gov ug kang Gerry Boy ug ning hatag dayon ug downpayment ang mga Espina.

4. Ang pamalit ug boto sa mga Espina ginagmay ra kay insured na sila ilang mga kadaogan.

5. Ilang gilaglag si Roselyn Espina, para katuohan kuno ang resulta, apil na ani si Lucy Curso.

6. Kung unsa ang pangayoon ni Atty. Japson kang Rogelio Espina, hatag dayon si Gov. Sama sa Aircon, Water dispenser ug uban pa.

7. Ang SMARTMATIC diha ning puyo sa Biliran Garden Resort. ug sa mga political allies sa mga Espina.

MGA PANGUTANA.

1. Ngano ang mga BGAN nga nakuha sa Almeria ug Kawayan na ulhi man ug hatod?

mao ba kini ang gi gamit sa pag transmit sa mga resulta gamit ang laptop ug ang BGAN para pag transmit ug result? wala pa gani nag sugod ang Election naka transmit na.

2. Ngano ang Expedition man ni Gerry Boy ang nag kuha sa PCOS sa Caibiran?

ehem ehem…

dili man kabaho ug daug ang mga espina kung dili man limbong..2007 election kung diin mikandidato si gleen pag ka congressman,unya ang mga espina,wala mibuhat ug panlimbong kay abi nila sila ang mudaog.kay nag too man sila nga sila pa gihapon ang iboto sa mga biliranon,,pero unsay nahitabo?nag daug si gleen.wala man limbunge mao nga nakabuhat si gleen ug mga projects sa biliran.unya karon na peldi kay gi pangandaman man sa mga espina.kay sa mga nagkalat pa nga text sa mapuyo.ingon ang mga espina nga ila buhaton ang tanan para lang sila modaug.mao na kana karon nga mibalik ang espina sa biliran pinaagi sa ilang pag pan limbong.

Unsa? Ning gawas na gyud si Atty Japson gikan sa iyang pag-tago tago sukad adtong Mayo 11? ha ha ha he he he ha ha ha. Ang ang man sab ug moingon siya nga naay daya, di masisanti siya sa iyang trabaho? Unya ang Smartmatic dili mabayran? ha ha ha he he he. Iyahay ug balibad, ang Comelec basin mawadan ug trabaho, ang Smarmatic dili mabayran unya puwede pa gyung kasohan… ha ha ha he he he

Tungod sa mga ning-gawas nga mga sintomas nga dako ang posibilidad nga adunay iregularidad ang ming-aging eleksyon, usa ra gyud ang solusyon MANUAL RECOUNT. Si Atty Japson unta mismo mo indorso sa maong lakang aron makalaro. Aduna nay patern ang mga binuhatan sa mga Espina. Sa ako nang gi-ingon usa si Gerry Espina sa pipila lamang ka mga tawo nga mingtawag kang Garci niadtong 2004 aron areglohon ang eleksyon sa Biliran. Sa samang higayon, nadale ang namatay nga si Gov Damilo Parilla sa iyang kandidatora sa pagkaMayor sa Naval.

Gikinahanglan nga mopagawas si Atty Japson ug official statement ngano nga kining mga 2 PCOS ug BGAN machines nahabilin man sa Kawayan. ha ha ha he he he hi hi hi. Iyang trabaho nga diha diha dayon sa pagkadiskubre, iyang tanawon ang detalye sa maong mga makina ug panghinanoon ug kini aduna bay sintomas nga gigamit ug kini nakatransmit ba ug mga resulta.. ha ha ha he he he. Ang iyang denial taphaw kaayo labina kay ninghulat unya siya ug mga 17 ka adlaw una mingpagawas ug statement. ha ha ha he he he. Ang problema iya ba ning statement o twist na pod ni JACK GADAINGAN, sama sa twist nga gihimo ni Jack sa pag-concede kunuhay ni Glenn sa iyang miaging artikulo… ha ha ha he he he.

Ang orchestrated propaganda machinery ni Gerry ning-gimaw na pod… ha ha ha he he he. Basin duha na dila nagduet ug ihi-ihi ug igit-igit…. ha ha ha he he he Si Gerry ug si Japson nag-ihi ihi na ug si Roger ug Gerryboy ug si Rudy tiga mop sa baha… ha ha ha he he he.

GRABE NO, KINING PAMILYA CHONG… ORDINARYO NALANG GAYOD NI SA ILA ANG MANUMBOK UG NGALAN ARON KAPANUMANGIL,WALA NA GAYOD NI SA ILA ANG PAGHATAG UG GITAWAG NGA” beyond the reasonable doubt” IKA NGA SA NGALAN SA HUSTISYA… ANG SA ILA KUNG UNSA ANG MASULOD SA ILANG MADUDAHONG HUNA-HUNA NGA IKAW SAD-AN,MAO NA GAYOD NA ANG ILANG PAGTUO..

GRABE NA GAYOD NING KALSENG PAGKATAWO KUNG SIMBA KO KUNG MAOY NAKADAOG ANG 2 KA MAG-AMANG CHONG MAS KUYAW ANG KABUTANGA SA BILIRAN,MOSAMOT ANG GRABEG PAGKA DEKTADOR…

ANG PROVINCIAL COMELEC NAPOD ANG GIBUTANG-BOTANGAN UG SALA O BINUANG…GAWAS NILA SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG NGA ILANG GIPAKULONG UG UBAN PA NGA GITAMAS-TAMASAN SAMA NILA COL SABORNIDO UG MGA TAGA DEP-ED,NAA NAGPATUYANG NAPOD SA ILANG GIBATI…SOBRA NA GAYOD NING PAMILYAHANG INTSIK KA BOGAL-BOGALON UG TAWO…

WALA PA GAYOD MAKONTENTO SA ILANG NAPAINGNAN RON NGA SUGOD NA SA KAAPEKTOHE UG GABA…HEHE.

Kahibalo na tang tanan Biliranon og unsa kadaku ang influence ni REGGIE NIERRA kang Sr. Espina

Kahibalo tang tanan nga ang asawa ni MONTEJO igsoon sa asawa sa igsoon ni REGGIE

Unya mangutana pamo kung ngano nga gia pil sa listahan sa nakadaug si Atty. Montejo?

Ako tigmo tigmo lang pero tinuod

ug wala moy gikahadlokan ipa manual recount na, unsa may
inyo kahadlokan? daug man kaha mo? aron ma-undang ning
mga molo sa katawhan.

TRAJIC DEATH,NAKAHIBALO MAN DIAY KA NGANONG KARON LANG KA NINGPIYAIT? DAPAT SA WALA PA ANG ELEKSYON…….WALAY MOTOO SA IMOHA.SALAMAT.

1. ang imong gipamalit ug otos nganong wala man lang nimo ibayad sa sigurado?

2.nag suroysuroy unta ka sa kadalanan:

ug mosinggit:

MGA KAIGSOONAN,ADUNAY NING OFFER SA AKO NGA MOHATAG KO SA MAONG KANTIDAD ARON SIGURADO AKONG KADAUGAN,KON PANANGLITA DILI KO MAKADAUG ,MAPILDI GYOD KO! HA…HA…HA…

JDV,murag klaro ang imong intrega.

to biktima hi saul ngadto ka cidg

biktima ayaw dha og pataka. kay ultimo imo espina kawatan dako… limbongan. kanag ing.ana klase na tawo dili na magdugay… aron ma undang ang pagrally sa mga bo ang biliran mag manual recount… ako kabalo ko gbayaran ninyo ang comelec og smartmatic. so ayaw na mo diha daghan cge istorya pamuwa. sukol me sa manual recount… kamo ngano man dili mo mosugot? kay ng inyo man glimbongan. busa kita mga taga biliranon dili ta mangundang hangtod mogawas ang tinood… palayasin ang mga limbongan og kawatan na mga espina…

kining comelec dili unta mo ingun nga ”DAWATON ANG KAPILDIHAN” kay sapagka tinuod, dili cya maka siguro nga walay limbong nga nahitabo! Electronic jud ang klase sa piniliay.. Kapila naba nahitabo nga nakawatan ang bangko sa ilang ATM? Unsa pa kaha ang election result? Mo recommenda unta cya nga e manual counting o bisag unsa ang gusto sa gi limbungan nga maka satisfy sa eya nga ma pildi o daug ang tinuod nga resulta!.. Kay ang naka dungog sa iyang panultihon, mag duda nga may limbong gayod.. Hob’ya ba kaha ning comeleka o pabor sa mga limbongan?

Ang mga taga comelec NGA MU SULTI MU N ANANG PANULtihon nag p ila b nga positive mu s g ingön nga g baydan mu ug 15M. Be fair nman s mga loser. Ug ipa kita nga professional mu dli professional s limbung ha?

Daghan gad ni si Atty. Japson ug tulubagon bahin sa eleksiyon dinhi sa Biliran.

1. Nganong didto man ang 2 ka PCOS machines ug 2 ka BGAN machines sa mga Espina sa Kawayan?

2. Nganong ningtugot man siya nga ang sakyanan ni Gerry Boy ang ningkuha sa PCOS machine sa Caibiran?

Kini nga mga equipment nga iyang gipalabi ngadto sa mga Espina nagpakita lang kung diin ning pabor ang Comelec karong eleksiyona.

In short, wa siyay pag pa-id sa iyang trabaho. Ug wala siya maghatag ug respetar ug kataha sa mga Biliranon nga nakamatikod sa mga buhat sa mga Comelec registrars dinhi sa probinsiya.

Gilingla pod niya ang mga party representatives bahin sa status sa mga PCOS machines una kini tuguti pagpa transport ngadto sa Tacloban niadtong Mayo 13.

WE SALUTE U ATTY. JAPZON! U DESERVE OUR PRAISES AND CLAPS!
KINI JUD MGA BA2S CHONG BINAYRAN BSAN KAHIBAW NGA LA CLA SA KATARUNGAN PADAUN LANG GIHAPON SA HIWI NGA PRINSIPYO.PATAKA LANG TAWN RADYO BAKTAS INTAWN LANG PUD ANG MGA ILARONON UG NAWNG AW ANO FA ILAD FUD!
KINSA MAN NI SI MR. EDUARDO GAHUM MGA MANA UG MANO? MIPIRMA KUNO UG AFFIDAVIT NGA MAY IRREGULARITY SA NAVAL NIAD2NG ELEKSYON? HALA NO!
SA TANANG MYEMBRO SA MUNICIPAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS CYA LANG ANG MIPIRMA!
DIIN DAPIT ANG IRREGALARITY “GAHUM”? NGA DAKO MAN GANI DAUG IMO AMO DINHI NAVAL?
CGE LANG KAY AKO NI IPA RESEACH ANG KINABUHI INI TAWHANA.PILA KAHA GIBAYAD IMO “GAHUM”?
KOREK JUD ATTY JAPZON, DAWA2N ANG KAPILDIHAN SA MGA CHIONG UNSAON MAO MAN ANG DESISYON SA MGA KATAWHAN..
LET US JOIN HANDS N MAKING THIS PROVINCE GREAT!
TY JALMZ

TAKIANG 14,

KALIPAY NA LANG MO UG INYO, ARSINAL, UG PUN-I PA NINYO UG PAKPAK UG PAGDAYEG SI ATTY. JAPSON.

NAGPAKITA KA LANG NGA DILI KA LUMAD NGA TAGA NAVAL. KINI SI MANO EDDIE GAHUM USA SA 2 KA SCHOOLS DIVISION SUPERVISORS SA DEPED SA NAVAL. USA KA TARONG UG LINDONG NGA TAWO, TAGA CARAYCARAY. ANAK SA USA KA KANHI PERENNIAL COUNCILOR SA NAVAL UG VICE-MAYOR SA KATAPUSAN NIYANG TORNO.

MAKATINDOG NA SI MANO EDDIE SA IYANG PRINSIPYO UG SA IYANG GIPIRMAHAN NGA AFFIDAVIT NGA DUNAY ELECTION IRREGULARITY SA NAVAL. DILI NA MATAROG UG MUKUROG KUNG ATAKEHON NINYO SA RADYO. MUSUKOL POD NI SIYA BASTA DUNAY SUKULAN. BISAN PA UG IPANGUTANA NIMO SA MGA SILINGAN SA MGA ESPINA SA CARAYCARAY.

KITAON LANG MAN NI UG KINSA ANG MAG TAKIANG HUMAN NIINING KRISIS NGA GIATUBANG KARON SA MGA TAGA NAVAL.

sigi lang mo bagulbol wla mahimo. sulong ngadto capitol dili palingkoron ang mga limbungan. Mga talawan biliranons…ilad ilaron lang ug tiguwang..

Kung si Mr. Japson not guilthy as he said” now atubanga si Congressman Chong sa hearing, ngano nagtago man ka? ug ngano mahadlok man ug recount kung way nahimo nga limbong last election? busa ihatag ang katungod sa katawhan ang makita ang kamatooran,,,unsa ka tinood nga mag baha ug dugo ang Biliran kung my recount? Well” ang manubag ining tanan ang mga Espina kay sila man ang nanghadlok ining tanan. Ayaw pod mo pagdahum dili mo bawos ang mga katawhan sa Biliran!

ANG AKONG REAKSYON ANING BALITAA SIMPLE RA:

NAA BA DIAY KAWATAN NGA MOAMIN NGASIYA NANGAWAT UNLESS PROVEN OTHERWISE..

RECOUNTING OF VOTES WILL MAKE THIS STORY CREDIBLE..

NGANONG PUGNGAN MAN ANG RECOUNTING OF VOTES..SIMPLE LANG POD HADLOK NGA MABUKSOT KUNG UNSAY TINUOD NGA SIYAGIT SA MGA BILIRANON…

Was ‘malicious software’ placed in recalled CF cards?
By RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 05/28/2010 1:23 AM | Updated as of 05/28/2010 1:37 AM

MANILA, Philippines – An international election observer disputed statements from poll automation contractor Smartmatic that the compact flash (CF) cards recalled just days before the May 10 elections were 100% cheat proof.

Former National Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) executive director and international elections observer Telibert Laoc disputed Smartmatic vice-president for Asia-Pacific Cesar Flores’ claims before the joint congressional canvass committee for president and vice-president, that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines were sure to not read or honor any malicious software inserted when the recalled CF cards were reprogrammed due supposedly to programming glitches.

Laoc noted that the 3rd party certification of the PCOS machines by Systest showed the PCOS machines’ firmware (or software installed in the machines) were not verified.

Laoc said this means it would be possible for anyone to insert malicious software that could pad vote results from the May 2010 elections since the system is not fool proof.

But while Laoc could not say for sure who would be responsible for the possible infection of the CF cards, if at all, he asserted that the abrupt recall of the CF cards just days before the election certainly caused a big damage on the credibility of the country’s first nationwide automated elections.

Laoc has been observing the proceedings at the joint committee’s work in the Batasan Pambansa since day 1. He was a local member of the delegation of the US-based National Democratic Institute, which, in March, said the Comelec had not done enough to boost the credibility of the polls.

Focus on old questions

For the last 2 days of the joint committee’s work, the committee members just focused on old questions about the accuracy and security of the automated election system.

On Thursday night, it canvassed 5 of the 278 certificates of canvass (COCs) that would pave the way for the proclamation of the new president and vice-president.

Earlier Thursday, the committee spent over 1 hour discussing whether it should subpoena and study all 76,000 recalled CF cards for signs of tampering.

Smartmatic’s Flores had previously told them that the PCOS machine software would not allow it to read any tampered CF cards.

House Speaker Prospero Nograles Jr. wondered how Smartmatic was able to address the problem so quickly.

“Doon nag-umpisa. If they didn’t reconfigure 8 days before the election, we won’t have any problem given the fact that Smartmatic, in its public statements, said that it will take 3 months to configure PCOS machines, and then suddenly, it took them 48 hours to retrieve and deliver to 76,000 precincts,“ he said.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, meanwhile, said: “Subpoena 76,000 flash cards retrieved by Smartmatic and ask Comelec to submit an audit log of PCOS machines and create a technical committee to study audit logs of the PCOS machines. Did Smartmatic subcontract to IT companies? And if it did, what were the subcontractors that handled it? We want them stated into the records so if there’s need for it, we’ll summon them to determine the integrity of those they did.”

Political operators at work?

Sources have told ABS-CBN News that some technicians who handled the reprogramming of the CF cards could have been employed by political operators to insert malicious software that could pad votes. The CF cards are said to be the brains of the PCOS machines.

ABS-CBN News has had no way to verify such a claim by sources, but the allegation has made the rounds of political circles.

While committee co-chairs Nograles and Enrile have gone to great lengths to remind committee members that the panel’s main task is to canvass the votes and not to investigate electoral fraud, the panel still ended up taking up questions about cheating since it goes into the matter of ascertaining the authenticity and due execution of the COCs.

Lawmakers wanted to be sure that the COCs were based on authentic and untampered fruits of the automated election system.

Cagayan de Oro case

Aside from the CF card recall, other serious debates during the early hours of the 2nd day of the canvass were the matter of the CF cards and election returns found in a dump in Cagayan de Oro.

Senator Aquilino Pimentel blew his top at the explanation of Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal of the incident, saying the Comelec was trying to protect its own people.

Larrazabal told the body that the CF cards and ERs found in a dump were those that were not claimed by the political parties. Some 30 copies of ERs are printed per precinct for dissemination to political parties, among others.

Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento then responded by saying that the Comelec has ordered an investigation into the matter.

Larrazabal said the ERs were actually stolen from Comelec officers.

“The ERs referred to were ERs not claimed by political parties. Not all were claimed by representatives of political parties. Those were the documents found. Not all 30 ERs were claimed, like 5 weren’t claimed, but 25 were given out. They were stolen from the office of election officers after the counting,” he said.

Pimentel moved to strike the response off the record, saying, “I accuse Larrazabal of trying to protect those who had a failure to protect the ERs. The Comelec has a tendency to protect its own kind, I think you’re trying to do that.”

Sarmiento said the Comelec had created a committee to investigate the incident, and that it issued an order relieving the election officer of Cagayan de Oro pending an investigation.”

Speak in layman’s terms

Meantime, Laoc advised information technology (IT) experts appearing before the committee to “laymanize” their language, noting the non-tech savvyness of the committee members may be causing the circuitous arguments.

Over at the gallery, there were fewer members of the audience, with a few people caught sleeping out of boredom.

The joint canvass committee meeting was supposed to start at 1 p.m. but started almost an hour late due to the tardiness of the committee members. However, the meeting had fewer breaks.

System can be used to manipulate votes—IT experts
By Faye Monchelle Gonzalez, ABS-CBNnews.com Halalan Volunteer
Posted at 05/28/2010 1:19 PM | Updated as of 05/28/2010 1:19 PM

Manila, Philippines – The system used to automate the May 10 elections is unsecured and can be used to commit dagdag-bawas (vote shaving).

This was the observation made by 2 of the information technology experts on ANC’s Headstart on Friday, May 28.

IT experts Bettina Quimson, Director of the Philippine Software Industry Association and Atty. Al Vitangcol, both of whom have testified earlier in congressional hearings concerning alleged vote rigging during the recent elections, noted for one thing that the statistically allowed percentage error is .0005.

This translates to 1 out of every 200, 000 PCOS machines.

“Computer programming is an exact science,” Vitangcol responded when asked about vote count discrepancies. “Any error is unacceptable.”

Even discrepancies in dates and time recorded should not be taken lightly, Vitangcol said.

The law, he pointed out, dictates election returns should contain the date and time during which relevant processes took place. Quimson said that on the technical side, a different date means the voting could have taken place on any other day.

Unreliable transmission

The transmission process is riddled with problems as well, both experts pointed out. “There are more than 200 cases wherein the actual ballot counts were not transmitted to the board of canvassers. What was transmitted was the result of the final testing.” Vitangcol said.

“It can be done to remove the name of a certain candidate,” Vitangcol added. “The CF cards could be used to actually erase the counts.”

The two experts agreed that the system, on the whole, is ‘unsecured.’

Quimson said other stakeholders should have been given digital signatures or pin numbers different from those provided by the vendors to ensure greater transparency.

Vitangcol, on the other hand said what was most unsecured was the transmission process. He added that even in an advanced country like Japan, elections are not automated.

For Vitangcol, these errors speak of something larger than the numbers: the lack of preparation. “In designing a particular information system, one has to exercise due diligence from the very beginning.”

Machines not properly tested

Quimson said that the PCOS machines had also not been properly tested. “They didn’t test it based on what it would be like in the field so they cannot certify what happens in the field.” No stress test, one that would subject the PCOS to the actual conditions during the elections, was conducted.

“When COMELEC is insisting that the experts go in and test the system in their controlled environment, we said no. We had to bring this out of [their] control and into the control of the experts to fully test it properly which is why SysTest Labs was called in.”

Vitangcol noted that SysTest Labs, a Colorado-based company that certifies that a software is in good condition, did not approve the software submitted by the relevant body.

According to Quimson, the report sent back to the COMELEC states that the system is peppered with errors. Quimson added that Instead of fixing these glitches, “We changed the rules in order to match problems occurring in the system.”

The mock polls conducted prior to the elections, according to the two experts, occurred in this controlled environment. – by Faye Monchelle Gonzalez, ABS-CBNnews.com Halalan Volunteer

Probe PCOS memory cards, group asks Comelec

By Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:22:00 05/31/2010

Filed Under: Eleksyon 2010, Elections, Computing & Information Technology

MANILA, Philippines—A cause-oriented group that monitored the May 10 automated polls called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Sunday to conduct a separate investigation of the compact flash or memory cards used by the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.

The Center for Political Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), which launched the Automated Elections Systems Watch during the polls, said the probe should explain why there were still discrepancies in the tallies transmitted by the PCOS machines even after the compact flash (CF) cards were replaced.

CenPEG said the old CF cards might have been used in the May 10 polls, since the order to replace them came less than a week before the elections and there was little time to change all CF cards.

A nationwide test of the CF cards conducted on May 3 resulted in erroneous readings, leading the Comelec to replace the cards in some 76,000 PCOS machines, many of which had been delivered to the polling centers.

Pablo Manalastas, a professor at the University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University, said no less than Comelec Chair Jose Melo and a Comelec presentation aired by a television network showed some 270-vote discrepancies in some precincts.

Melo earlier stated that the difference in the count of votes done by the ongoing random manual audit (RMA) teams and the PCOS machines was only 0.0007 percent in most precincts.

However, Melo also said that in a number of clustered precincts where the RMA was done, the differences in the counts of the RMA teams and the PCOS counts were “two to three digits.”

“Chairman Melo admitted differences in counts of between 10 and 999, when the PCOS machines are reported to be 99.9995 percent accurate,” Manalastas said.

He said that if a PCOS machine was to have an accuracy of 99.9995 percent, or an error not exceeding 0.0005 percent, this means that the PCOS machine was allowed to differ in its count from the RMA by only four vote marks for every 100 clustered precincts.

Huge difference

Manalastas said a Comelec presentation later aired by the cable channel ANC showed a difference of 270 or more in one clustered precinct which recorded a total 8,460 votes.

“A count difference of 270 out of 8,460 votes is 3.2 percent, which is a huge difference, being 6,400 times greater than the reported PCOS error of 0.0005 percent,” Manalastas said.

He explained that a difference of 270 vote marks out of 8,460, assuming that no cheating happened, could mean that the PCOS machine “did not assign votes marked on the ballots to the correct candidates, resulting in the difference in the RMA count and the PCOS count.”

Manalastas said the error could have easily occurred if the board of election inspectors (BEI) used the old version CF cards that Smartmatic had tried to replace with the correct ones.

“Smartmatic’s attempt to replace the old faulty CF cards with correct ones was done less than seven days before the actual elections. In this Philippine archipelago, where not every BEI teacher can be reached by TV or newspaper, it is highly probable that a substantial number of BEIs did not even know that the CF cards are being replaced by new ones, and continued to use the old faulty CF cards,” he said.

Manalastas said he would not be surprised if about 10 percent of clustered precincts used the faulty CF cards.

The Comelec said earlier that the final report on the RMA done in more than 1,000 clustered precincts was nearly finished and would be made public next month.

Inventory

The poll body will conduct an inventory of all the PCOS machines and other gadgets in the warehouse of automation contractor Smartmatic-TIM in Cabuyao, Laguna, following the visit by the House committee on electoral reforms and suffrage to the site.

In a notice issued on Friday, Comelec Executive Director Jose Tolentino called on two representatives from each registered political party and accredited citizens’ arm to witness an inventory of the election paraphernalia at the warehouse on Ion Street at the Light Industrial and Science Park at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Tolentino, also project management office chief, said the inventory was in compliance with a May 17 letter by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Speaker Prospero Nograles requesting Melo to preserve and make accessible the PCOS machines, iButtons, memory cards and other equipment for the duration of the canvassing of election results for president and vice president.

GROUP SAYS LEGITIMACY OF MAY 10 POLLS IN DOUBT

http://www.tribune.net.ph/

Impound PCOS machines, flash cards — poll observers

05/31/2010

A poll observer team recommended yesterday the impounding of some 82,000 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines and memory and compact flash cards used in the recently held automated elections to allow detailed investigations into the allegations of widespread electronic poll fraud.

Global Filipino Nation (GFN) which deployed observers on election day in municipalities and cities in Pampanga, Quezon and Iloilo also challenged the legitimacy of the May 10 elections, citing five cases that “put to question the authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, veracity and accuracy of the vote counts.”

The impounding of the PCOS machines and the flash cards is necessary in anticipation that these machines will be shipped out immediately after the elections in the pretext that these machines were leased under the Comelec-Smartmatic contract for a whopping P40,000 + each, the group said.

The group, which represents offshore and onshore Filipinos in 30 countries, cited the following reasons for doubts it raised on the

legitimacy of the polls: the election results transmitted from the precincts do not have digital signatures of the Board of Election Inspectors (BEI); the number of disenfranchised voters is sufficient to affect greatly the results of the elections; the Automated Election System (AES) was implemented live without the appropriate field testing and law-specified testing in actual elections; the source code review was not completed and initial findings were not addressed; and no audit was done on the AES prior to the elections and only a mandated random manual audit was held that up to now has not been completed.

Aside from its recommendation to impound PCOS machines, the memory and CF cards, and perform forensics on these using the actual ballots, the group also said the Commission on Elections should promptly comply with a Supreme Court directive to make public the documents on Comelec’s preparation and compliance with the requirements of the automated elections law.

It added that an independent, non-partisan qualified party should conduct a full-blown audit of the automated polls system including recommended improvements to include automated registration, purging of voters lists, precinct mapping, and Internet Voting.

In a statement, GFN said that based on industry standards, the digital signature on the precinct election return (ER) is a summary of the ER encrypted using the BEI’s secret key that identifies the BEI personnel and the precinct number from which the ER came; and that the precinct ER was not modified in any way.

It said that under Comelec Bid Bulletin No. 10 issued on April 27, 2009 “the digital signature shall be assigned by the winning bidder to all members of the BEI and the Board of Canvasser (BOC) whether city, municipal, provincial, district. For the National Board of Canvassers (NBOCs), the digital signatures shall be assigned to all members of the Commission and to the Senate President and the House Speaker. The digital signature shall be issued by a certificate authority nominated by the winning bidder and approved by the Comelec.”

It said there were fears at that time that if automated poll supplier Smartmatic gets a copy of the secret keys of the BEIs, it would theoretically have the power to change the ERs.

It stated, however, that Comelec Resolution 8786, dated March 4, 2010, no longer required the use of digital signatures.

Why did Comelec suddenly removed this very important featurs of the system?, the group asked.

Observers are at a loss as to the valid operational justification to remove the digital signatures of the BEIs, it said.

The Comelec was quoted as saying “the move [not using the digital signatures] was aimed at removing one step in the transmission process to minimize human intervention and protect the results of the balloting.

“Will three keys to be entered prior to transmitting significantly delay the transmission process, given that the transmission has been observed to take several minutes?,” the group posed.

It added a Comelec consultant on queue management estimates the number of disenfranchised voters to range from 2 million to 8 million on election day, which can easily affect the results in the presidential, vice presidential and senatorial race especially the close ones.

On the source code review, it said Comelec commissioned SysTest Lab of the USA for the review and after three months, the US firm submitted a report with some 4,000 comments for action by Comelec.

“There was no official announcement by Comelec whether these SysTest comments were addressed,” it said.

“Comelec also opened up to political and other interested parties the review of the source codes in February 2010. No one agreed to it as only a part of the source code was made available, and one month’s time was given. To the parties, it would not be a real source code review but only a walk-through,” it added.

The lack of transparency in this source code review, among others, led the Supreme Court to order Comelec to produce the relevant documentation on these items, the group said.

The non-transparent action led to suspicions and worries by citizen watchdogs that insufficient testing and checking would happen—leading to the use and non-recognition of a malicious code, the emergence of irregularities, and possible manipulation of the vote results.

Simple mistakes like registered voters reaching 153 million in the House server are indicators of such probable errors, it added.

“There has been a noticeable improvement in the peace and order aspects of the elections compared to past national elections and there was initial satisfaction with the early voting results bUT later events put to question the authenticity, integrity, confidentiality, veracity and accuracy of the vote counts in the ERs,” the group said. GFN said the doubts rose from disabling critical, legally specified security features
, particularly relating to the digital signatures.

“Thus, no one (both perceived winners and losers) can be sure whether the vote results are true and correct, and reflect the real will of the Filipino people,” it said.

Two days before the elections, the Supreme Court ordered the Comelec to open for public scrutiny, all the flash cards, as well as the source code and all the contingency plans prepared by Comelec, saying that the poll body must make everything transparent. This was never done by the Comelec, according to GFN.

It added the reconfigured CF cards may have been programmed with instructions to ignore whatever marks are manually written on the official ballots, and worse, add such a mark to favored candidates.

These CF cards are not “read only” as claimed because aside from purchasing new CF cards, they (Smartmatic) reprogrammed previously used CF cards, the group said.

These reconfigured CF cards were not checked by independent parties prior to deliveries. The actual track record of Smartmatic when they first configured 30,000 CF cards was three months.

The big worry of many IT experts is that the electronic transmission of the PCOS machine and the CCS server is “two-way.” There are also some 5,800 PCOS machines idle for back up purposes.

What if “ghost precincts” will transmit fraudulent results (from these idle PCOS machines) to selected and pre determined CCS servers in the municipalities and cities, it said.

“This is no longer a speculation. Smartmatic did this in Wao, Lanao Del Sur during the ARMM elections there where it changed ‘zero’ results,” it added.

“Unfortunately for us, especially lay men, these adverse results are not easily detected nor seen immediately but a glimmer of hope, however, is that we have the smoking guns. There are some 82,200 PCOS machines, 1,600 CCS servers and 50 million ballots used in the elections. A small set of them will do,” the group said.

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., meanwhile, dared protesting candidates on the last elections to unmask alleged poll fraud operators, even those purported Comelec officials involved in rigging the just-concluded elections.

Pimentel also asked the Comelec not to cover up reports on pilferage or tampering of election results which are being brought to the attention, one by one, of the congressional body investigating irregularities last May 10 national polls.

Pimentel noted the growing number of complaining candidates attesting to the existence of electoral fraud syndicates, even within the Comelec.

He, however, challenged complaining candidates to muster the courage to reveal the identities of the members, agents or brokers of electoral fraud syndicates, including Comelec officials, who allegedly approached them and offered their services to make them win in exchange for a hefty fee running into several millions of pesos.

Pimentel said even the very reputation of the Comelec is at stake because of the allegations that certain high officials of the poll body were involved.

“Once the culprits are unmasked, the authorities concerned should spare no efforts in investigating the allegations against them and in prosecuting them until they are punished and jailed,” he said. Angie M. Rosale

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ANG NAPILDI—–HILUM

ANG NANAUG—KATAWA

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move forward for a better island……

SUMALA SA MGA NING WITNESS NGA MGA MYEMBRO SA COMMITTEE ON SUFFRAGE NGA MGA KONGRESTA SA GIHIMONG DEMOSTRATION SA TAGA SMARTMATIC KADAGHANAN GAYOD ANI NILA NA SATISFY GAYOD NGA LISOD KAANGKON UG BINUANG O ANOMALYA SA PAGDUMALA SA ELEKSYON,MAO NA ANG KALRO..,SO DERI ANGAYAN A HUNONGON SA KAMPO SA MGA CHONG ANG PAGPANGALEGAR NGA SIYA GIDAYA SA IYANG KAPILDIHAN…OKEY?

Doubts linger despite Smartmatic AES demo
Daily Tribune
By Gerry Baldo and Charlie V. Manalo

06/01/2010

Neither the many congressmen who went to the Smartmatic plant in Sta. Rosa, Cabuyao, for a testing of the precint count optical scan (PCOS) machines under controlled surroundings, nor the camp of former President Joseph Estrada were impressed or convinced that the automated election system, as programmed by Smartmatic, has yielded accurate results, and was fraud-free.

A congressional source who witnessed the demonstration in Cabuyao told the Tribune that the demonstration hardly proved anything, even if it was admitted that the four compact flash (CF) cards in the possession of the Parish Pastoral Council or Responsible Voting (PPCRV) taken from the junkyard in Cagayan de Oro, were genuine.

“What we were given was a demonstration of the system under controlled conditions. It was in their (Smartmatic) warehouse. Their technicians were there to operate the system. They (Smarmatic officials) tell us that while one can edit the CF cards, once edited, the machine will no longer accept the card and data from this CF card can no longer be transmitted.“But it should be remembered that Smartmatic controls everything, which means that they could have easily changed the programming of the machines beforehand, to show exactly that which they wanted to show us,” the sources said.

The camp of former President Joseph Estrada, meanwhile, made it clear it is not convinced the machines and the automated system are fraud free, even with a demonstration made by Smartmatic officials amid claims that the recent automated elections were foolproof.

Lawyer Boy imperial, one of Estrada’s lawyers, said that while Smartmatic proved that the PCOS machines would not be able to transmit another election return after another transmission, it bolstered the claim of “Koala Boy” that his group had transmitted ER’s ahead of the genuine ER that should have come from the precincts.

Imperial also said that Smartmatic failed to explain in full the “command instructions for the PCOS machines on how the votes for a particular candidate should be counted.

“While they had shown that the PCOS machines had refused to transmit an ER after an earlier ER has been transmitted, the allegations raised by Koala Boy could still be relevant,” Imperial said yesterday after the House committee on suffrage conducted an ocular inspection of Smartmatic’s warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna.

Imperial also said that Smartmatic had refused to show the “log” of all the transmissions that the Smartmatic server had received during the election.

It had also refused to provide all interested parties the images of all the ballots captured by the CF cards.

“The coordinates for each of the candidates were not also shown,” Imperial said.

A “coordinate” is the exact place of name and the adjacent oval space that has to be shaded.

He said that the log of all the transmissions received by the server and a comparison of the images of the ballots with the ERs for a candidate should also show proof that the counting machines were indeed transmitting the right figures for each candidate.

Another source, who was present during the ocular inspection in Cabuyao, said that Smartmatic officials refused to even try to compare the images of the ballots to a candidate’s ER.

The same source said that Smartmatic also refused to try a “generic” CF card into the PCOS machines.

“This way we could see whether a CF card, not configured by Smartmatic could be used in a PCOS machines,” the source, a lawyer, said yesterday.

Imperial said that a simple test can be done by creating a generic memory card which should be used to scan ballots exactly the same way as the original memory card program and that numeral numbers and letters should be used.

He said that the ballots should be inserted into the PCOS machines using the original memory cards and allow it to give out the results of the counted ballots, adding that a comparison of the results using the generic CF cards and that of the Smartmatic’s CF cards should be done.

Imperial said that they are still not convinced that all the 76,347 CF cards have been retrieved, reconfigured and returned to their respective precincts in four days before the elections.

“Unless there already exist standby memory cards that have already been configured and its destination identified, the delivery of these memory cards in time for the elections is still in question,” Imperial said.

Another congressman, who asked not to be identified just yet, since he will be bringing up this issue when the hearing resumes in the House committee, said that he had gathered the information that there were only some 15,000 cards that were reconfigured and delivered by Smartmatic, not 72,000 CF cards as claimed by the tech provider.

But for House committee chairman Rep. Teodoro Locsin, the plant and system inspection proved that the CF cards are tamper-proof.

But allegations of pre-programming, even to others, are still to be debunked.

While the ocular inspection in the warehouse of Smartmaticin Cabuyao, Laguna bared that the CF cards used in the May 10 polls are indeed tamper-proof, allegations that they were pre-programmed have yet to be debunked.

During the inspection, Smartmatic officials led by Cesar Flores and Heider Garcia demonstrated how CF cards cannot be tampered with as a tampered card will not be read by the PCOS machines.

The PCOS machine rejected the CF card that the Smartmatic technician tampered with in the audit log displaying a message in its LCD which read: “Election file loading error. Unit needs to be shut down. Please press shut down button.”

The same thing happened when Garcia edited the tampered results and placed it back into the automated machine.

The four CF cards intercepted by volunteers of the PPCRV as they were about to be thrown in a dumpsite in Cagayan de Oro City, were also opened during the inspection and it showed it “matched” with that of Comelec’s server.

“The opening of CF card is the indubitable piece of evidence that any sign of fraud will be seen,” Locsin remarked.

“That’s the ultimate proof of the digital signature (that tampered CF cards will not be accepted by PCOS). What is important is that we were able to show the truth. This is scientific evidence. It is impossible to cheat in the system,” Flores reiterated.

However, the demonstration failed to answer allegations of other lawmakers that the PCOS machines could have been fed with pre-programmed CF cards when its original CF cards were found defective and replaced just days before the elections.

Also, last Saturday IT expert Obert Verzola claimed the security of the digital signatures have been compromised as the private key intended for the transmitter had also been known to other people other than the designated transmitter, the chair of the Board of Inspector (BEI) and Board of Canvassers (BoC).

Comelec and Smartmatic have yet to give satisfactory answers regarding these issues.

Meanwhile, a delay in the canvassing of the certificates of canvass for president and vice president is expected even as the members of the National Board of Canvassers (NboC) yesterday continued to ask officials of the Smartmatic on how the PCOS machines worked and how the discrepancies in the dates printed on the certificates of canvass happened.

As of 7:30 p.m. yesterday not one of the ballot boxes containing the electronically transmitted CoCs had been opened and canvassed.

The House had to open and close the session at about 4:00 p.m. to give way to the resumption of the canvassing with its Senate counterparts.

Cesar Flores and Garcia had to bring to the House plenary a small-scale automation setup consisting of three PCOS machines and servers which they used in their demonstration.

Sen. Aquilino Pimentel questioned Smartmatic on why they have to ask a lawmaker to sign a non-disclosure agreement when these are same people who are trying to question the process of automation.

“Why ask a member of Congress to sign a non-disclosure agreement,” Pimentel said adding that the non-disclosure agreement could stifle the congressional investigation into Smartmatic.

Rep. Dilangalen grilled Smartmatic on why some election returns (ERs) show precinct results were transmitted several times.

Garcia said the system automatically sends the results to the three destinations all at the same time but when it fails to connect to any of the three, it also automatically tries to resend the data.

He said the system does not pose any problem because the main server only accepts the first data transmission and rejects the succeeding ones.

The transmission of results, which can only be done once per PCOS machine, is undertaken by the Board of Election Inspectors through the use of the “eye button” and the entry of an individual PIN codes.

Speaker Prospero Nograles, for his part, was concerned if the PCOS machines takes digital images of every ballot it accepts since it could be manually counted in case of electoral protests.

Flores said the images are in the machines and this was shown in their demonstration in Cabuyao where they found 600 images in PCOS machines from Cagayan de Oro City where four compact flash cards and other election paraphernalia were found dumped.

Congress summons canvassers in areas with no COCs

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 16:24:00 06/01/2010

Filed Under: Computing & Information Technology, Elections, Eleksyon 2010, Politics, Inquirer Politics

MANILA, Philippines—Congress on Tuesday summoned the heads of the board of canvassers of 12 provinces and cities which failed to electronically transmit the certificates of canvass to the House of Representatives.

At the same time, the chairpersons of the board of canvassers of six provinces and cities which did not send copies of CoC to the Senate were asked to appear before the canvassing body to explain.

On Tuesday’s continuation of canvassing, Senate Majority Floor Leader Miguel Zubiri identified the 12 provinces as Aurora, Biliran, Bukidnon, Cagayn de Oro, Camarines Norte, Davao oriental, Ilocos Sur, Kalinga, Pampanga, Romblon, Surigao del Sur and San Juan City.

Lanao del Sur also had no electronic transmission of the CoC because it has yet to hold a special election.

Meanwhile, the six areas that did not manually transmit copies of CoC to the Senate are Malabon, Lapu Lapu City, Cebu City, Capiz, Iligan City and Eastern Samar.

In counting the votes, the joint congressional canvassing committee compared the results generated from the consolidation and canvassing system (CCS), or the server of the House, and the CoCs manually transmitted to the Senate.

Each province or city should have a CoC that is electronically-generated and manually-transmitted for comparison, thus areas which lack either was not yet canvassed.

At Tuesday’s resumption of canvassing, the joint committee counted the votes from Baguio and Siquijor, which were earlier deferred, after Commission on Elections commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal said there was no discrepancy in the total number of votes cast and the ballots counted in the areas.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile also said that the canvassing committee has ruled that the lack of digital signature of the board of election inspector being raised by lawyers of some candidates “is not a ground for objection to the canvass of the CoC.”

Manual counting is the best way to answer all the malicious results of the May 10 election.
Please prove to our fellow Filipino who are seeking the true winners.
Manual counting Manual counting please.

andito lang ako sa tabi-tabi. hehehe hahaha hihihi…

Temperature Range: for president, vice

By Gerry Baldo

06/02/2010

The question of how the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines worked during the last elections raised more apprehensions yesterday as the National Board of Canvassers (NBoC) found that there were over 800,000 votes that were nullified for vice president and over 500,000 votes nullified for the presidential race.

Speaker Prospero Nograles, co-chairman of the joint canvassing panel, said that of the 10 million votes so far canvassed, almost 10 percent were considered void.

He stated that the reason for the high incidence of void ballots could be “over voting, under voting or the ballots were not properly read” by the PCOS machines.

“There could have been over voting, under voting or the PCOS machines failed to read the ballots,” Nograles told reporters yesterday.

The canvass for the positions of president and vice president proceeded yesterday at the House of Representatives where the NBoC, composed of members of the Senate and the House, had convened amid objections raised by some lawyers of the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Among the issues raised by the lawyers were those pertaining to discrepancies in the number of votes relative to the actual votes cast;

questions about due execution and genuiness of the ballots and the alleged lowering by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) of the threshold from 100 percent to accommodate the proclamation of local candidates.

Lawyer Ralph Calinisan, representing former President Joseph Estrada, Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) presidential bet, said they have lodged a continuing objection against the canvassing of the certificates of canvass for the president and the vice president on the ground that the COCs have not been digitally signed and that the joint canvass committee has not come out with a ruling on the issue of the lack of digital signatures.

“There is a need for the panel to come out with a ruling on whether the COCs were digitally signed or not,” Calinisan said.

Calinisan also said that there are questions that need to be answered, such as the issue of excess votes.

“Null votes plus valid votes counted exceeded the number of votes cast,” he said without referring to the precincts where these happened.

Lawyers for the PMP reiterated yesterday that the COCs now being hurriedly canvassed by the Joint Canvassing Committee were not digitally signed.

PMP lead counsel George Erwin Garcia claimed that Smartmatic “impliedly admitted” during its demonstration that the COCs have not been digitally signed.

“Smartmatic itself has impliedly admitted that the COCs now being canvassed lack the much needed digital signatures. Its demonstration has failed to show this,” Garcia said.

“Only a canvassed document with a digital signature can be canvassed. Without it, the document is a mere scrap of paper and has no value at all in law,” Garcia continued.

The PMP is standing firm in its position that digital signatures are those for persons, and not simply those of machines, and that there should also be digital signatures in each step of the AES.

Calinisan questioned why the canvass of the electronically transmitted results has begun despite the numerous issues that have yet to be resolved by the joint committee.

“It would be best if the joint canvassing committee first rule whether or not the COCs have been digitally signed. There should also be a determination of the genuineness and due execution of the electronically transmitted results before they are canvassed,” Calinisan said.

“We are not out to delay the canvass. This is about canvassing the correct results. The vote of every Filipino should be counted. We should protect our people’s right of suffrage,” Calinisan added.

Counsels from numerous parties have also objected to the use of the COCs which lack the needed digital signatures.

The PMP also expressed its concern that the compact flash (CF) cards used in the elections which were subsequently found in a Cagayan de Oro dumpsite and tested in the Smartmatic Cabuyao Office are the old CF cards which are color-coded blue. Reconfigured CF cards from Smartmatic are supposed to be colored silver.

There have been allegations that the original CF cards have already been replaced by Smartmatic.

PMP vice presidential candidate Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay manifested that the number of null votes is almost 10 percent of the total number of votes in Compostela Valley where Estrada and Binay won by a landslide.

“There is no connection between the bailiwicks of Sen. (Mar) Roxas and the issue of the null votes,” lawyer Aquilino “Coco” Pimental said, referring to an apparent claim by the camp of Roxas that where Roxas is winning, the null votes are bigger.

“Cavite is where Mayor Binay has won, but the null votes was a mere 27,000,” Pimentel said adding there are over a million voters in Cavite.

In Cavite, at least 27,000 votes were not counted and in Compostela Valley there were at least 20,000 or about 10 percent of the votes in the province that were considered void. In both places Binay won said Pimentel, as he junked the position of Roxas’ camp.

A lawyer of Bangon presidential candidate Eddie Villanueva has also manifested before the panel that there are a number of null votes that are getting bigger even as he cited the case of Cebu where there were 88,000 null votes.

The Liberal Party, through Camarines Norte Rep. Liwayway Vinzons Chato, for her part, asked how overall votes were affected by the incomplete transmission of COCs from municipal, city and provincial consolidation and canvassing systems (CCSs).

Chato took to task the Comelec and automated election systems provider Smartmatic for not submitting a report to Congress and the joint canvassing committee on which areas and how many votes were affected by the incomplete COCs.

“We in the joint canvassing committee are tasked to make sure that all votes cast by our people last May 10 are counted properly. It will be a disservice to our people if we do an incomplete canvass at the national level,” she said.

“It’s odd that the report (on this matter) will be submitted only after we ask for it,” she remarked, after a Smartmatic representative admitted to such discrepancies and committed to submit a report on the same.

Vinzons-Chato explained that certain COCs were incomplete on two accounts.

First, in many areas, the canvassing threshold was lowered from 100 pecent to accommodate the proclamation of local candidates. However, no information was forwarded as to how many votes and where these votes are that were not transmitted.

Second, there were several precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines that erroneously transmitted electronic returns (ERs) that contained the mock votes cast during the final testing and sealing of the PCOS machines, not the actual votes cast on May 10.

But Comelec Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer refuted Chato, saying that the threshold was not lowered for the national candidates, including the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

“The lowering of the threshold for the local candidates will not affect the election for that particular position,” Ferrer told Chato.

Meanwhile, election inspectors in 13 provinces and cities are set to be summoned by the NBoC to explain why they failed to electronically transmit their respective CoCs.

Ordered to explain were BEIs in the provinces of Aurora, Biliran, Camarines Norte, Bukidnon, Davao Oriental, Ilocos Sur, Kalinga, Pampanga, Romblon, Surigao del Sur and Lanao del Sur; and Cagayan de Oro City and San Juan.

Video ‘proof’ of electronic poll cheating now on YouTube

06/02/2010

Get your laptops and go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhh-F-OK8fM where evidence of electronic election cheating can be found, according to defeated gubernatorial candidate and North Cotabato Vice Gov. Emmanuel Piñol, who says he has finally found proof on his claims that indeed there was cheating in the May 10 elections.

In the website of YouTube, three videos of alleged cheating done in several areas all over the country have been posted.

One of the videos shown was that of the alleged cheating in North Cotabato with a title “True Result North Cotabato.”

The video was posted on May 28, 2010 by a person or group with username “dayaan2010.”

In it it says these are the true results in North Cotabato coming from the Comelec (Commission on Elections) server, before the results were altered.

It says that the video is an actual footage taken from the

Comelec’s Internet Web site prior to this person or group calling itself Dayaan 2010 (cheating 2010) altering the electronic sending, saying these are the true votes in this particular province as the posted video was being described.

The video showed a posting in the Comelec election results website for North Cotabato (www.electionresults.comelec.gov.ph/res_reg4700000.html) wherein Piñol was seen as the winner in the gubernatorial race with 252,802 votes or 55.75 percent compared to Emmylou Mendoza’s 198,251 votes or 43.72 percent of the total number of votes cast.

The said election result was posted in the Comelec website on May 14, 2010 at around 3:23 a.m.

In the Comelec‘s final and official tally however, Pinol only garnered 199,332 votes compared to Mendoza’s 236,966 votes.

Two more videos of alleged cheating at the 2nd congressional district of Makati City and on the 1st congressional district of Surigao del Sur were also posted by the same user.

All of the alleged winning candidates as shown in the videos were defeated in the final tally of the Comelec.

Piñol said the video clip is sufficient proof that there was indeed cheating in the first ever national automated elections in the Philippines.

“The video is an incontrovertible evidence that we were indeed cheated in the last elections through the manipulation of Smartmatic technicians allegedly on order of Comelec officials.

“This is a damning evidence and if there is any degree of decency left on our political foes, they should gracefully step aside and give way to the true will of the people,” Piñol said in a text message being circulated to his constituents since Monday.

Piñol also appealed to Dayaan2010 to come out and make public their pieces of evidence.

“I also appeal to these technicians to please come forward and help us attain justice and fairness. I hear you and I am willing to talk to you. Wherever you are, please help us because this means a lot to the lives of the people of North Cotabato,” Piñol appealed.

Dayaan2010 claims to be a Smartmatic technician who was allegedly ordered by some Comelec officials to cheat in the elections by manipulating the results that will be posted in the Comelec website.

The informant said that they decided to make the video footage public after some of their colleagues have gone missing.

“We keep this video for our personal security purpose. It is our intention to bring out the true results of the elections last May 10 2010 election, in order to protect our safety and security. We are a group of hired Smartmatic-TIM technicians, but we were ordered to do something else (such as cheat).

“A number of our companion-technicians have gone missing and have probably been silenced. Please help us publish this expose to have the truth come out. Thank you and long live the true Filipinos, ” Dayaan2010 said in the vernacular.

The informant said that the manipulations were done only at the local level and in selected areas only.

The video however failed to show details on how the technicians were able to manipulate the election results. The audio of the said video was also barely decipherable as it was obviously altered so as not to be recognized easily.

Several claims of electronic cheatings were made by losing candidates in the May 10 elections but Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM have been constantly denying such. This is the first ever that a video was presented to the public to show proof of the cheating.

KASAYURAN,

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WE LOVE YOU CONGRESSMAN CHONG UR THE BEST…HINDI KAYA NG MGA ESPINA ANG KAYA MONG GINAWA NA MGA PROYEKTO…PERO KAYA NG MGA ESPINA MANGDAYA AYUN NAMAN ANG HINDI MO KAYANG MANDAYA…

BIKTIMA,
AYAW GANI DINHA PAG PATAKA UG YAMBAT NAGHIWI LANG NA IMONG DAGWAY.
KAMO NO GINSAKOPAN NI SATANAS ESPINA MAY KAISOG UROY PAG BALI SA MAONG KASO KABAHIN NI SPO2 SAUL.
KAMO PAY ILADO NGA MANGINGILAD UG ANG GINSAKOPAN NGA MGA CREMINAL INYO NAPOD IBALIKTAD NI CONG.GLENN CHONG NGA MAOY NAGTARUNG PAG SERBISYO SA KATAWHAN.
KAMO PA MAOY CREMINAL KAMO PA MAOY KUSOG MOBALI SA MAONG KASO.
MAAYO GYUD PAGKABALIKTAD ANA IMONG UTOK ANHA NAMAN KA MOLABAN SA CREMINAL.
NADIHADO PA INTAWON ANG KINABUHI NI ANHING TONY BARCELO UG ANHING INTON PARILLA.
BAGAA GYUD NINYO UG DAGWAY OI.

BIKTIMA,
DAGHAN NA KAAYO ANG MGA ESPINA HIWI NGA MGA BINUHATAN AYAW PALAB-ANI KAY MOSOKOL NA ANG MGA DINAUG DAUG.

kung ako pa sa mga espina hinay hinay nalang sila ug pamutos ky ang tanan biliranon wala na moangay sa ila, total dili ma sila taga biliran,panghipos na intawon ug balik namo sa manila ky wala na jud moatobang kaninyo,gisuka namo sa tanan bilranon.

ANGAYAN NA GAYOD SUGDAN ANG DUGAY2X NA NAUNSYAMING KASO NILA SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG KAY DILI NI KINUMEDYA ANG KINING ILANG GIDANGATAN UY?

HONORABLE JUDGE AMONG GIPANGAYO NIMO NGA HASHASI NA ANG KINING MGA KASOHA…KAY NAG ANTOS NA INTAWON UG DUGAY NGA PANAHON ANG KINING MGA AKUSADO.

hahaha!pag xure mo ui.gnahan mn mis mga espina.dli pa cla angayan mamutos ky dli tnan biliranon ang supak sa ilaha.ania pa mi musuporta sa ila.HAHAHA!
UI RIZA,MORA MN KAG C GLENN CHONG CGE LAG PANDAOT,WAY PLATAPORMA.
HAHAHA!

nag mga supporters ni espina,wla lay aksyon pero kitaun nato kung kinsay mas dghan nato.kmi ba o kamo.kung gusto mo mghimo pa ug mas dako pang gubot,himua ninyu pero huna2a kung mkatopong ba mos kdghan namo.huna2a ninyu kung nganung napilde inyung kandidato,tungod ky dghan na ang nibali.MAS DAGHAN ANG NIBALI KY SA INYUNG MGA NGSUPORTA NI CHONG!
KUNG MO DGHAN PA JUD MOG REKLAMO TUNGOD SA INYUNG GIPAKALAT NGA LIMBONG,PAG POST MOG MGA EBEDENXA!MGA ULOL!
KUNG NAA MAN KHAY LIMBONG,NAPAMATUD AN NA UNTA NGA NAA.PURO LANG MN MO KUNUHAY MY LIMBONG.MGA WAY UTOK,SA BGAY MGA SUPPORTERS NI CHONG,MGA BRAINLESS MN KY MGA TGA BUKID MN PD.HAHAHAHA!
USA PA,NIA PAY WEBSYT SA TGA BILIRAN NGA PERTENG KA UNFAIR KAAU.SA BGAY KY CHONGERS MN PD NI XA.MAO PURO PANDAOT NLANG ANG PERME IPOST ANI DRI NGA SYT.
MGA SUPPORTERS NI CHONG,HAGITON KO KAMO,USA2A UG SURVEY ANG MGA TAWO DRIS ISLA SA BILIRAN,KUNG KINSA JUD ANG DGHAN UG SUPPORTERS,KANG GLENN BA O KANG ROGER.
TOTAL,BISAG UNSAON NINYUG REKLAMO,DLI MN JUD MO PGBIGYAN.KANA NLANG NGA PAAGI INYUNG BUHATON.KUNG MAS DGHAN JUD MO,WLA NA MI MAHIMO,KUNDI PALINKURON C CHONG.PERO KUNG MAS DGHAN MI,PALIHOG UNDANG NLANG MOG REKLAMO KY SAMOK NA KAAU MOS BILIRAN.KUNG SAMOK C ESPINA,MAS NILABAW PA MONG SAMOK DINHI SA ATONG PROBINXA.

Poll fraud seen in reconfiguring CF cards

By Gerry Baldo

http://www.tribune.net.ph/

06/03/2010

Probable electronic cheating in the May 10 elections could have occurred when Compact Flash (CF) Cards were reconfigured in the offices of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) executive director issuing a memo to provincial officials who had been given a lot of flash cards to reconfigure and a card burner.

Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said CF cards were reconfigured in the DoST offices without the knowledge of poll watchdogs and representatives of political parties, including the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino.

“The CF cards were reconfigured without transparency in the DoST regional offices,” Rodriguez said yesterday in the thick of debates relative to the CF cards before the board of canvassers.

Rodriguez maintained that they did not know about the arrangement of the Comelec, Smartmatic and the DoST until yesterday morning during the continuation of the hearing conducted by the House committee on suffrage and electoral reforms, when a Comelec memo was bared.

But its chairman, Rep. Teddy Locsin, apparently intended the hearing to clear Smartmatic officials, saying that the focus of the inquiry on the poll fraud should be the Comelec, and no longer its technical provider.

But Rodriguez said that there was a big possibility that the CF cards were reconfigured to favor certain candidates when these were reconfigured in the DoST offices.

“Nobody knew that they were reconfiguring CF cards in the DoST offices,” he said.

Maguidanao Rep. Didagen Dilangalen said the reconfiguration of the CF cards took DoST employees until the early morning of Election Day as shown by a memorandum sent to officials of the DoST for “your dedicated performance of the required tasks and tireless efforts extending up to the early morning hours just so the CF cards are reconfigured and will be utilized for the election process are highly commendable.”

Dilangalen also pointed out that the CF cards were prepared in such a way that it would favor a certain candidate.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile asked Comelec Executive Director Jose Tolentino to issue an affidavit to explain how the CF cards were reconfigured in the DoST offices and why it took them until the early morning of Election Day to reconfigure the cards.

A memorandum issued by Alfondo Alamban, DoST region 10 director, showed that the DoST should be taking care of the replacement of defective CF cards and of the PCOS machines for use of the May 10 elections.

Another memorandum from the Comelec, issued on May 9, 2010 or a day before the elections, showed that the Comelec would be deploying 20 blank CF cards and two card burners in the provincial offices of the DoST where defective CF cards will be replaced. The memorandum was signed by Tolentino.

Rodriguez took Tolentino to task for failing to inform the political parties and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting with the issuance of the memorandum a day before the election.

The Comelec has deployed 1600 CF cards in 80 provinces during election day.

The same issue pervaded the hearing of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reform yesterday morning even as the panel chairman cleared the Venezuelan firm from any liability in alleged election cheating.

Congressman Locsin, the panel chairman, said he was satisfied with the automated system that was used by the Venezuelan firm in the elections.

“They have been able to answer everything,” said Locsin, an outgoing congressman.

“There is nothing (for Smartmatic) to explain. I don’t need Smartmatic, what I need is Comelec,” said Locsin. “We’re collating facts, preparing the committee report, satisfied one.”

Teodoro added that he would recommend Smartmatic to also automate the 2013 elections.

“Recommend in 2013? Why not? If they can plug the loopholes, who knows if they can answer everything in investigations and audit are made,” said Locsin.

Cesar Flores, Smartmatic-Asia Pacific president, stressed that the back-up CF cards were not tampered with and were reconfigured at the DoST offices only after verification that the CF card in a precinct was not working.

He said that they would transmit the reconfiguration program to the DoST only upon verification of a CF card failure. He said that only then can the DoST burn the reconfiguration program into the blank CF card.

Quezon City Rep. Mary Anne Susano, who lost in the QC mayoral race, is looking for a “virgin” PCOS machine where she could run the two CF cards in her possession.

Susano claimed that the CF card in her possession could have been tampered with and reconfigured to favor certain candidates.

Samartmatic and Comelec officials agreed that they should just tap provincial directors of the DoST by sending them CF cards and authorize them to reconfigure the cards if they are needed as replacements.

Tolentino said they agreed with the procedure, wherein the board of election inspectors in any area where a flash card has broken down must inform the polling center technician about the problem.

The technician would in turn call the DoST provincial director, who will also notify the central office of the Comelec, which will verify the report.

If it has validated the report, the central office will call the warehouse plant of Smartmatic in Cabuya, Laguna, which will sent the configuration to the provincial director.

With the new CF card, the poll officials will have to run the ballots again into the precinct count optical machine.

Locsin said this is where a cheating could take place by feeding only the ballots favoring a certain candidate.

But blunders in the automated election system (AES) implemented for the May 10 polls are largely due to decisions made by the Comelec and its contractor Smartmatic to sidestep accuracy standards needed to ensure the reliability of counting of votes.

This is the main contention of Dr. Pablo Manalastas, IT analyst of the Center tor People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG). a policy research institution based in UP Diliman. Manalastas is also computer science professor of the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University.

“The Philippine IT (information technology) community must uphold certain standards of accuracy for an election system, and must insist that Smartmatic-Ccmelec fix the bugs in the PCOS-CCS systems,” said Manalastas, stressing that “this is for their own good, and in preparation for election 2013, when Comelec might again force Smartmatic upon us.”

The IT expert said that accuracy specified in RA 9369 (amended Automated Election Law) refers to the capability of the PCOS to read a voter’s choices on the ballot as indicated by his shade marks and to correctly assign his votes to his chosen candidates

Hence, Comelec should have tested not only the capability of the PCOS machine to recognize valid marks made by voters on their ballots, but also the correctness of the logic that the program uses in assigning marks on the ballot as votes for candidates and in summarizing vote totals.

Comelec should have ensured the correctness of the preparation of the precinct election returns and the precinct ER transmitted to the municipal and national BOC servers, he added.

“Testing for accuracy involves a methodical and scientific preparation of test ballots to ensure that all candidates receive valid vote marks, that the test ballots distribute the vote marks approximately equally among the candidates to check whether votes for them will be property assigned to them, and vote totals will be properly computed,” said Manalastas.

“The haphazard non-scientific way used by Comelec SBAC (Special Bids and Awards Committee) during the prequalification testing of Smartmatic and the ten-ballot test prescribed by Comelec to be used by the BEI (Board of Election Inspectors) during the final testing and sealing (FTS) stage are simply inadequate and unacceptable tests of accuracy, and do not reveal the capability of the PCOS to credit votes to the selected candidates,” said Manalastas.

He also scored Comelec for deciding, from the start, to disable the voter verifiability feature of the PCOS machine that would have allowed the voter to see how the PCOS has read and interpreted his ballot by showing him the names of the candidates that the PCOS thinks he voted for.

This decision of Comelec contributed substantially to our mistrust of the system, simply because Comelec does not want us, the voters, to see how the machine is interpreting and counting our votes.”

DND chief claims fraud but won’t make move

By Mario J. Mallari

http://www.tribune.net.ph/

06/03/2010

Avowed junta disciple acting Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales expressed belief that cheating happened during the country’s first ever fully-automated presidential elections last May 10 and said he is collecting data to prove it.

“Do you believe that there was no cheating? I believe cheating happened,” Gonzales said during a chance interview during an event yesterday hosted by Manila Water at Camp Aguinaldo.

“There are definitely defi-ciencies in those machines, there are deficiencies in transmissions, there are manipulations in the elections, there are fake ballots

in the last elections,” said Gonzales.

But with less then 30 days in office, Gonzales admitted he could not do anything about alleged manipulation of the last May 10 polls.

Last May 12 or two days after the actual voting, Gonzales initially assessed the overall holding of the polls as “credible for now.” Gonzales, however, maintained that he is not after interfering in the results of the election which, based on congressional canvassing, was topped by Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino.

“Let’s really examine what happened in the elections, it is not about favoring somebody or not or whether we can still interfere in the result of the election, the election is already over,” Gonzales said.

“…it may not stand up in court but we have to find the truth, we owe it to our people to show what really happened in the last elections.

Just like other critics of the automated elections, Gonzales cited “deficiencies” on the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used during the elections and the use of fake ballots.

“But as a private citizen, I would really want to go deeper into why there were fake ballots, why were ballots sold to some politicians, authentic ballots were sold to some politicians and pre-shaded. I want to know also why the machines will accept fake ballots,” said Gonzales.

“I’d like to find out because I intend to be an advocate a clean and honest elections for the next one,” added Gonzales, who did not mention who benefited from the alleged election cheating.

He said he already started collecting evidence regarding the supposed election manipulation “not necessarily for the courts. I think we owe it to our people to respect the results of the election and for the nation to move on.”

Several losing politicians have complained of cheating during congressional hearing recently, among them were former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza, who lost to incumbent Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim; former Quezon City Rep. Mike Defensor and Rep. Annie Susano who were topped by actor-turned-politician outgoing Vice Mayor Herbert Bautista in Quezon City mayoral race.

Questions were raised with regard to the integrity of the PCOS machines and the compact flash cards after showing some glitches before and during the election proper at the congressional hearing spearheaded by Makati Rep. Teodoro Locsin.

BIKTIMA,
BITAW ANGAYAN NAGYUD SUGDAN ANG IMBESTIGASYON SA MAONG KASO NOH?ARON MANGAPRESO NA KANANG MGA CREMINAL NIMONG AGAWON OI?
BIDA SUKAD NAGHARI MOS BILIRAN WA NAYUD KALINAW INTAWON SUGOD SA KAMATAYON NI ANHING GOV.DANNY PARILLA.
ANG TULIS PERTING DAGHANA UNYA BODYGUARD RAPOD NI ROGER ESPINA ANG NANULIS.
ANG NAKAPARAT PAGYUD INTAWON KAY IPAHID SA PAMILYANG NAGTARONG UG PANGINABUHI.
UG NAGTARUNG PAG SERBISYO SA KATAWHAN.
BIKTIMA,
KON WALA GYUD MANLIMBONG SI ROGER ESPINA NGANO DELI MAN MOSOGOT UG MANUAL RECOUNT.
PASTILAN WA GYUY ANGAY INTAWON C GERRY BOY MOLINGKUD PAGKA GOVERNADOR UNSA RABAY NAHIMO DIANA NGA WA MAN NAY BOOT.DE KAMAO MOESTORYA UG ENGLISH SIGI LA NAG DERBY PARAYAWON MOGASTO UG SUGAL MAAYO RABA KON IYANG SININGTAN ANG KUARTA NGA IYANG POSTA PASTILAN SININGTAN SA BUHIS SA KATAWHAN.
PASTILAN PAITA PAGKAPAIT GAYUD PALANDONGON NOH?
SOGOT NAMO SA MANUAL RECOUNT ARON MAKALINGKUD ANG MGA BANDIDO SA ILANG TRONO NGA LIMPYO ANG CONSENSCIA.

hello TULISOK! WAHAHA! may nag fed na ako bout ini GAHUM uy aguy tanan diay tchers ug admnstra2rs sakop iya dstrict dugay na diay nagandoy RETIRE na unta ni grabe ka nsultador SA KADA METNG UG CONFERENCE KALOOY PUD TAWN MORA KUNO SILA IYA MGA SAOP. daghan cguro kabasakan ug kalubian. recorded pa jud mga insulto HALA KA GAHUMA ka! mora kuno ug may agi sa nag maestro fa aw nag clasrm techr fa diay ni cja WAHAHA! gi petitionan pud diay pagpalayas sa iya gigikanan nga mga distri2 WAHAHA! mao na LIGDONG!
naa pa sunod blog pohon TULISOK ang kakaivang lyf ini imo LIGDONG NGA GAHUM! kay daghan na n4mation ako nakuha sa reliable nga sources.
anyway, andam2 nalang LIGDONG NGA GAHUM kay ipatawag ka congress. HALA KA! amo ka suga2n dri mla ug banda sir!
LET US CLAP OUR HANDS 4 D EXCELLENT PER4MANS OF ATTY JAPZON N D JOINT SESSION OF THE CONGRESS JUST A FEW HOUIRS AGO! MAO NAY CONSEQUENCE KUNG WALAY MGA BAKAK GIHIMO! WALA JUD LISODLISORA SA PANEL.
UNYA REKLAMO FA MO MGA CHONGA?
ONWARD BILIRAN! TY JALMZ

HOI BERT:NAG INGON DIAY MGA ESPINA NGA DI CLA MUSOGOT MANUAL RECOUNT? MAS MAAYO NGANI IMANUAL RECOUNT PARA MO MATUNGHAN SA INYO GIPAMATI,MGA DESPARADO NAMO KAAYO.DAWAT NALA KAPILDIHAN OI

ask lang! ngano wala pa man ihatag ang HONORARIUM sa mga CCS operator sa Biliran Province hangtod karon. ang mga BEI human naman. ang CCS operator raba unta ang dugay nagserbisyo!kay cla ulhi man nakauli

UNSA TONG PETSA KARONG BUWANA ILUNSAD ANG SUNOD NGA HEARING SA MGA GIPANUDLO SA MGA CHONG NGA SILA SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG?

KAY MAG VIGIL POD MI SA ATUBANGAN SA KORTE SAMA SA GIBUHAT SA MGA NAGKAWAWAD-AN UG PANGITA SA DPWH DIHA SA ATUBANGANAN SA KAPITOLYO,HEHE…

AMONG HANGYO SA KANG HONORABLE JUDGE HINAOT PAGAHIMOL-MOLAN NA UNTA NING KASOHA NILA SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG NGA GIPAPRESO SA MGA CHONG…KAY ARON NAA NAPOD DAKONG BALITA NGA AMONG MASAYRAN KUNG UNSA GAYOD ANG TINUOD ANI NGA PANG HITABO KAY DILI BAYA NI MAAYONG EHEMPLO SA PODEROSONG TAWO NGA MOPAKITA UG KANGIL-NGIG NGA GAWI NGA BASTA2X NALANG MANUDLO UG TAWO UG LAYON MAGTINGKAGONG SA SELDA O PRESOHAN…OKEY?

hoy mga CHONGA suporters mga bogo jud mo au! WAHAHA! WA MO MALIFONG? NGANO MAN TAWN MGA ESPINA MAN NYO KONTRAHON? POR DIOS POR SANTO COMELEC NTAWN DECIDE RECOUNT UY! KAY GLENA CHONGA man kaha protest aw ad2 cya reklamo ELEC2RAL TRIBUNAL CONGRESS! kung aprobahan iya protest kung may igong ebednsya aw ad2 MANUAL RECOUNT congress!
pero maputi nalang uwak impocible 2 happen jud na nyo chika!
kung ang protesta gov ngad2 konsehal aw RTC! nya kasabot na mo???
pro sa pagka karon mau pa CHONGA njoy maau 2 d max jud! NGANO KAY DID2 PRISOHAN IBA NA JUD LYF!
UY nagtikagamay naman mo dnha rally2? BALIMBING NA UBAN?
SOAR HIGH BILIRAN!
TY JALMZ

BIKTIMA,
HAHAAAYYYYYYY PAGKAGAHI GYUD NIMO ALIMPATAKAN BIKTIMA PAGKA WAY SWERTI SA IMONG GINIKANAN NGA GIPANGANAK KA NGA DAKUNG BALIKTAD ANG ALIMPATAKAN.
SA TINUD-ANAY BISAN C KINSA NGA IT CONSULTANS ANG IMONG PANGUTAN-ON KABAHIN SA AUTOMATED ELECTION
CRAPPED GYUD DIAY NING SMARTMATIC POYDI RA DIAY NI MANIUBRAHON KON SI KINSA ANG NAGABAYAD SA ILANG SERBISYO NGA LIMBONG.

KAANGKON NA GUD MAN UG GAMAY PAG-LAOM ANG GIPAKULONG SA MGA CHONG NGA SILA SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG NGA KAKUHA NA MANGGOD SILA UG PATAS NGA LABAN SA KORTE NGADTO SA INTSIK CHONG NGA ABUSADO SA IYANG PODER…

KARON NGA WALA NAY ALAS O GAHUM NGA GIKOPTAN KINING PAMILYAHANG INTSIK CHONG MAS ARANG-ARANG NANI ANG DAGAN SA KASO SA KORTE BAHIN SA PAG AMBUSH KUNO SA KANG CAHRLES CHONG NGA MAOY KUSOG MOPA POSTPONE SA HUSAY SA KORTE,HEHE…

SPO2 SAUL UG 2 KA CIDG PANGANDAMI GYOD NI NINYO NGA KAANGKON NAMO UG IGONG PAGTAGAD ANING INYONG NAHIAGUMAN SA KAMOT SA PODEROSONG INTISK CHONG…MAO NANI ANG PANAHON NGA MAKAATUBANG O INYO MASUPIL ANG ABUSADONG TAWO NGA NABAG-OHAN SA RA SA PODER SA POLITIKA.

Hahay.. Wa na gyud utok ning mga tawhana kay kung kinsa pa nuon ang tinuod nga nabiktima mao naman nuon ang himuon nga nang biktima, naunsa man ka biktima? klareks lng kaayo nga pamilya ka anang mga tinuod nga nang biktima ug tawo. Hala daw kung sa inyo to nahitabo ug kamo ang gi-ambush, unsa man inyong hunahunaon? diba mao ang tinuod nga hustisya? wa gayud hustisya nang imong ilaban nganhi pirmi sa blogs kay imo naman nuon baliktarun ang hustisya nga gikinahanglan sa mga nabiktima. Kung tinuoray gayud nga dili na sila mao ang nang ambush nganung kinahanglan pa man nila mutago ug pila ka buwan sa autoridad? Sige daw tubaga nang akong pangutana?

Failure of automation

Daily tribune

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares

06/08/2010

It will hardly be admitted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), its partner, Smartmatic-TIM, and of course the winning candidates that the automated presidential election was an utter failure.

Sure, the automation gave out the election results just hours after the polls closed, but were the results correct and accurate and were they credible?

More importantly, were the votes rigged, to favor certain candidates?

There is certainly a lot of doubt, given the many mysterious ways the poll body and Smartmatic went into, to ensure that a lot of human intervention came into play — which human intervention was supposed to have been eliminated by the Automated Election System (AES).

Truth is, the Comelec insisted on going into the AES, knowing that it was ill-prepared for automation, refusing to strictly adhere to the automation law which called for some sort of a pilot automated election, with just a few cities, provinces and municipalities in the three regions of the country participating, having been blinded by the huge P11.3 billion budget of the Comelec for the 2010 polls.

Truth too, is that the Comelec bungled the AES, big time, along with its partner, Smartmatic, that was probably only to eager to do away with a lot of provisions of the automation law and the contract demands.

After all, even as Smartmatic and Comelec failed the SysTest Lab’s 99.995 accuracy test, mainly because the conditions demanded by SysTest for such accuracy and integrity of the program and system were never met, they still claimed that such a certification was issued, which was a complete lie, since conditions imposed by SysTest were never complied with.

There were just too many anti-fraud safeguards to ensure the credibility and accuracy of the results of the automated elections.

Why on earth was the safeguard of the digital signatures of the Board of Election Inspectors removed, then replaced with the digital mark of the machine which machine incidentally, even gave the BEIs the option not to put their digital signatures, if not to make it easier for the cheating poll syndicate to engage in massive automated fraud?

Any which way one cuts it, the Comelec officials are not that stupid not to know that the more safety features are eliminated, the less chances there will be for the poll count to be accurate, and vote rigging would have been at most, minimal, not massive and nationwide.

So again comes the question for Comelec and Smartmatic: Why were the anti-fraud security features eliminated, and why were the conditions imposed by SysTest for 99.995 accuracy not complied with? Were both the Comelec and Smartmatic cutting corners to be able to get more money in their pockets, passing this off as the total price, even if the specifications of the product were inferior?

This would be no different from the government contracts for road building where contractors use inferior materials for the same contract cost, where under the table money would be going to private pockets.

More to the point: Why were Comelec and Smartmatic officials, along with DoST officials, lying to the people?

As things stand, up came the so-called null votes, which the Comelec and Smartmatic officials claim consist of blank ovals, double ovals, or the overvote, and the spoiled vote, all of which are lumped as “null votes.” The machines do not say what kind of null vote it is, as everything is lumped into null votes.

It also must be asked: Isn’t it very probable that the machine failed to read ovals which were misaligned or even lightly shaded? We are talking of millions of votes classified as “null votes.”

As the Philippine Computer Society director said: “These (sins of Comelec-Smartmatic) are grounds to doubt the accuracy and integrity of results. We don’t know whether the votes accurately reflected correct Election Returns.”

Once again, there are doubts cast on the legitimacy of the elected officials, as there is doubt they were legitimately and duly elected by the sovereign Filipino people. When can we ever have honest elections where the will of the people will be upheld?

hello mga friends! unya unsa naman ni karon nga close naman hearing congress sa SAMAHAN NG MGA PILDING KANDIDA2 nya decision? WALAY IGONG EBEDNSYA SA PANGLIMBONG! HUHUHU! kalooy pud chonga ug mga suporters no! PILDI NA PRESO PA JUD! looy jud as n L O O Y!
mao na na mareng glen ninghang jud daun sili no? nya mangadto pa jud me RTC june 17 kay tan aw me imo bacn baya postpone ha! ibtan jud ka namo ngipon! WAHAHA!
ty jalmz

All Biliranons
All Bloggers
AllFreedom Fighters
All Biliranons Abroad
All Biliranon Youth

I appeal to everyone to be vigilant and insure no ballot boxes leaves the premises, or ballot boxes switched during the transfer. Insure that the ballot boxes are marked and double locked to prevent tampering.

Our protest rallies are starting to gain attention in the national capital and hopefully we will obtain what we are praying for, Meantime, please guard the boxes now stored in all municipal and provincial storage locations.

I encourage everyone to report immediately any suspicious moves to interfere with the ballot boxes. Use your cameras and cel phones to alert the protest rally organizers.

God Bless Biliran

Smartmatic can’t be trusted in 2013–Pimentel

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100612-275173/Smartmatic-cant-be-trusted-in-2013Pimentel

By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 08:06:00 06/12/2010

MANILA, Philippines—Can the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) technology partner, Smartmatic-TIM, still be relied upon to hold automated polls in 2013 despite the technical glitches that marred many of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the just-concluded May 10 elections?

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. does not think so.

“Not unless loopholes, glitches, avenues of manipulation are plugged,” said the veteran senator, a member of the joint congressional committee that canvassed the votes cast in the presidential and vice presidential elections.

The senator pointed to severe flaws in the automated election system (AES).

“Let’s just say it failed to live up to the sanguine hopes for clean, orderly, transparent elections,” Pimentel told the Inquirer, issuing a post-mortem assessment of the conduct of the automated elections.

Pimentel, however, stressed that the “irregularities, abnormalities or glitches that came with the process and the results of the automated elections in some parts of the country may not suffice to nullify the electoral exercise.”

Pimentel delivered an explanation of vote titled, “Hail to the Chief and Blessed be His Vice,” minutes before the joint session of Congress, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, proclaimed Sen. Benigno Aquino III and Jejomar Binay as President and Vice President, respectively, on Wednesday.

Pimentel’s observations and evaluation on the conduct of the automated polls were contained in a report which formed part of his explanation of vote.

Curing deficiencies

Pimentel described PCOS as “not completely reliable and were tainted by certain anomalies.”

He said that the automated electoral system that was used in the country’s very first automated elections on May 10 “left a long trail of deficiencies that must be cured if the next elections will be automated again.”

He cited the inaccurate date and time stamped on the election returns.

Commenting on the erroneous dates on the closure of the polls inscribed on some COCs transmitted to Congress, Pimentel said this indicated that the PCOS machines “could have been tampered with or that the machines simply committed errors that corrupted the documents.”

For example, he said that in Bacolod City, copies of the canvass reports from precincts in the city stated that the polls closed on Jan. l8, 2010.

In Manila, there were election returns that bore the dates April 28, May 4 and May 9, indicating they were prepared and transmitted even before elections were held.

Expert analysis

Pimentel cited the expert analysis of Edmundo Casiño, director of the Philippine Computer Society (PCS), on the inaccurate date and time stamped on the election returns.

“The only plausible explanation for this (anomaly) is that some cloned or similar PCOS device were used for scanning counterfeit ballots printed elsewhere in some clandestine areas so that the erroneous number of votes of the candidates for local or national positions on the dates and times shown in the election returns were recorded and captured as if they were genuinely ‘original’ in the compact flash memory card,” Casiño had said.

“And possibly during election day, the CF (compact flash) card bearing the pre-scanned and pre-counted results could have been switched with unused and real CF card,” he had added.

Comelec reviewing PCOS deal: Before fully paying Smartmatic
By Shiela Crisostomo (The Philippine Star) Updated June 13, 2010 12:00 AM

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=583792&publicationSubCategoryId=65

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections will not pay Smartmatic-Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) in full if, upon review of the conduct of the elections, it is discovered that the Venezuelan firm failed to meet all the conditions in its contract with the government for the lease of the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines.

Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the government has already paid Smartmatic 80 to 90 percent of the contract price.

“Government contracts are structured that way. You have the entire amount and it’s up to several tranches and each tranche is tied to a specific milestone. If they meet the milestone, you give them money,” Jimenez said.

He said the Comelec would evaluate the performance of Smartmatic, which, in turn, would submit its own performance report.

“They (Smartmatic) will have to conduct their own study of what went wrong.

Apart from that, we are going to look at their performance vis-à-vis their contract,” Jimenez said.

Smartmatic-TIM leased 82,200 PCOS machines to the Philippine government for P7.2 billion. Jimenez said the Comelec would review flaws in performance – such as delays in deliverables and the last minute replacement of the compact flash cards – and determine the effect on the remaining balance.

“We will not complete the whole contract and write finish to it unless each account has been settled. We will have to look at the liability of the Smartmatic for various aspect of the program, especially the things that they have admitted to have done wrong. For instance the compact flash cards, they admitted that. So we have to find out what is the impact of that in our payment,” he said.

Jimenez said aside from withholding the remaining balance, the Comelec can also claim the P350-million perfor­mance bond paid by Smartmatic.

“There are a lot of resources that we can proceed against (them) in case we need to do it,” he said.

Takiang.

Nahuman na d i ang hearing? Ang hearing ra man kaha, unya unsa man ang himuon apan sa resulta sa hearing? diba mao ang pag tagad ug paghatag ug attention sa fraud for the purpose nga malikyan sa umaabot nga mga panahon?

Wla gayud nag-isip ang taga comelec kung unsa ang ilang maayong buhaton ani, ang ilang gibuhat sa mga reklamo mao ang pagtabon sa palpak sa ilang mga tawo ug palpak sa smartmatic, pila kaha ang sharing ani nilang duha sa mga deal nga ilang gipang offer sa mga kandidato, Imagine for just a month nakaya ang pag auotmate sa election, oh GOD what a big BUG!!!!! a very big glitch…. So klaro kaayo nga naay unpreparedness factor ang comelec, Unya naay preparedness factor ang mga Cheaters kay ilang gipangbusog ang taga comelec, mao nga ginagmay lng kunuhay ang ipanghatag sa katawhan arun ingnun nga gihigugma gyud d i sila sa biliranons.. Heeheheh eta ninyo ohab…

COMELEC, SMARTMATIC NOT OFF THE HOOK YET

Calls for deeper auto polls probe build up

By Marie A. Surbano and Angie M. Rosales
Daily tribune

06/14/2010

Just when the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its supplier Smartmatic were about to breathe in relief after exhaustive probes into the conduct of the automated polls last May 10, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. sought the continued impounding of the 60 precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines at the Senate while poll watchdog-Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) asked the poll body to make public several documents which it will use for its planned independent study of the recently concluded automated elections.

In a statement, CenPEG said there is a need for a full disclosure in the documents related to the implementation of the first-ever nationwide automated polls before an unprejudiced assessment can be made.

Pimentel also urged the Comelec to authorize the disclosure of the source codes to allow the scrutiny of neutral information technology experts from the Philippine Computer Society (PCS), as requested by Congress.

Pimentel made the appeal in reaction to a statement of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile that the voting machines that were placed under Senate custody should be transferred back to the Comelec.

“An objective study can only be done if pertinent data and information, relevant to the study at hand, shall be accessible and available to researchers and scholars, so that a no-nonsense body of knowledge can be developed in the interest of public service and good governance,” CenPEG said.

CenPEG said these documents inculde the SysTest full report; source code waltkthrough plan; source code of PCOS program; source code of the CCS programs; file formats of all data files used or produced by the PCOS program; file formats of all data files used or produced by the CCS program; public keys used by all the PCOS computers; public keys used by all the CCS computers; user manual of the PCOS program; user manual of the CCS program; and the Smartmatic-Comelec contract with the complete annexes.

At the same time, CenPEG also demanded that documents detailing the finance and budget plan of the AES-Smartmatic; copy of the Smartmatic Voters’ Education contract; contract between Smartmatic and the Dominion Voting Systems; contract on transmission and deployment plan of the transmission facilities; report on the PCOS transmission on May 10 and thereafter; report on the customization; old ballot faces (national and local) matching the faulty CF cards; new ballot faces (national and local) actually used for the May 10 elections; report on the training of BEIs and technicians; inventory of compact flash cards used in the final testing and sealing; and the re-configured CF cards for May 10.

“Various stakeholders (need) to help find answers to many questions that affect the credibility of the elections, especially with regard to some unusual incidences occurring with the PCOS (precinct count optical scan) machines of the Smartmatic-propelled automated system,” added CenPEG.

Earlier, the Comelec announced its plans to tap foreign experts to perform and evaluate the first nationwide automated polls in the country.

Comelec Spokesman James Jimenez had said that the introduction of the new system made it necessary for the election system to be evaluated.

Jimenez explained that they want independent foreign experts to carry out the assessment and evaluation of the May 10 polls computerized elections since they wanted it to be free from any malice as well as to show that its credible.

“I would suggest to the Senate president to hang on to the PCOS machines under examination and to act on the requirement of allowing the source codes that are kept in the vaults of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) be made available,” Pimentel said.

The PCOS machines were found being kept inside the residence of a technician of Smartmatic, contractor of the poll automation project, in Antipolo City shortly after the May 10 elections.

Unless the forensic examination is completed, allegations that the PCOS machines were used for illegal transmission of election results to favor certain candidates will not be resolved, the senator said.

Pimentel said if the Comelec officials concerned will not cooperate with Congress, especially by refusing to provide the source codes, “they would be complicit in sabotaging the will of the people.”

“Perhaps the Comelec in general is hesitant to produce the evidence against the wrongdoing of its own people. Probably, that is keeping them from performing what they should do, in this particular instance, the release of the sources codes so that the PCOS machines can be examined forensically,” he said.

Pimentel said that although six of the impounded voting machines were opened in the presence of representatives of the PCS, Comelec and Smartmatic, no actual examination was done due to the absence of the source codes.

However, he was informed that the initial examination of the machines showed that their “hash codes” did not match with the hash codes as listed in the records of Comelec.

Pimentel also urged the Comelec and Smartmatic to comply with the directive of Congress for a full inventory of all PCOS machines and compact flash or memory cards that were used in the elections.

He said the PCOS machines and CF cards must be preserved because they are needed by the Comelec in resolving protests by losing candidates who claim that the cards had been pre-programmed to manipulate the results.

One of the complainants, Quezon City Congresswoman Annie Susano came in possession of samples of the allegedly tampered CF cards. Pimentel said Susano shared with him the contents of one CF card that was presumably taken from one of the PCOS machines used in the elections in the city.

“When the CF card was opened by the use of a privately-owned computer, it disclosed that of the seven sensors in the PCOS machine from which the card was taken, four were put on and off at certain intervals and three were permanently switched off,” he said.

The sensors are a device that read the contents of the ballots when they are processed b the PCOS machine.

“One does not have to be an IT expert to understand that a reading of the sensor settings of the CF card readily shows that something was basically wrong with that particular PCOS machine. The switching of sensors on-and-off meant that some voters were counted some of the time, while others were not counted most of the time,” Pimentel said.

He said it does not speak well of all the PCOS machines that were used throughout the country.

“Nonetheless, if one of the PCOS machines did go wrong or was programmed to read some votes in some of the columns of the candidates and not read in others at certain times, there is ground for alarm that all was not well with the automate election system that was used in the May elections,” Pimentel said.

A Catholic bishop, meanwhile, joined calls for the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee to form an independent body to assess the just-concluded automated elections.

Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo along with other conveners of the Automated Election System Watch (AES Watch) made the appeal in a letter sent to the House committee.

“The panel (should) be constituted with competent individuals of established probity and mandated with proper and adequate support to conduct a thorough review and evaluation of the technical, procedural, and other aspects of the automated election system used in May 2010,” part of the letter read.

Aside from Bishop Pabillo, AESWatch’s letter was signed by conveners Alfredo Pascual, president of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association; CenPEG vice-chair Dr. Temario Rivera; and Dr. Rachel Roxas, dean of the De La Salle University College of Computer Studies.

Pabillo chairs the National Secretariat for Social Action- Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

AES Watch expressed concern over the “many technical and procedural glitches which tend to put into question the overall validity of COMELEC’s claim” that its system worked “perfectly” “and that the poll automation glitches were due mostly to human intervention resulting in procedural errors.”

The broad, multi-sectoral poll watchdog said the May 10 voter turnout is way below Comelec’s forecast of 85 percent, and “could be the lowest” compared with previous presidential elections.

The group added the technical and procedural problems resulted in long queues and inconveniences that discouraged many voters from voting.

“The magnitude of voter disenfranchisement could be bigger if the significant number of rejected ballots is considered,” it said.

It asserted that the important question to answer is “if and how the AES enhanced the exercise of voters’ rights and whether it provided fair, transparent, and credible elections.”

“Prudence,” the AES Watch signatories said, “dictates that the AES and its management be looked into to determine the accuracy and integrity of the election results.”

Weeks before the elections, AESWatch rated Comelec preparations for the May 10 polls as being “deep into the danger zone” given the absence of minimum internal safeguards and the imperfect certification of the AES operation issued by the Comelec’s Technical Evaluation Committee.

“An appraisal of the recent automated elections is also needed in aid of whatever legislative action shall be taken to review RA 9369 (amended Automated Elections Law) and other election-related laws”; and to “resolve tensions between opposing views, achieve closure on various issues and questions, pinpoint accountabilities for lapses and misdeeds, and learn lessons that can inform the use of automated systems in future elections,” said AESWatch.

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