HOCUS-PCOS QUESTION: WHO PLACED THE FILLED UP BALLOTS INSIDE THOSE BIG BROWN ENVELOPES WHEN NO SUCH OFFICIAL FORM WERE PROVIDED TO THE TEACHERS UNDER ARTICLE IV (FORMS, DOCUMENTS AND SUPPLIES) SECTIONS 27-28, AND THE TEACHERS WERE NEVER INSTRUCTED TO DO SO UNDER ARTICLE VI (PROCEDURES OF VOTING, COUNTING OF VOTES AND TRANSMISSION OF PRECINCT RESULTS) SECTIONS 44-54 OF COMELEC RESOLUTION 9640 (GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BOARDS OF ELECTION INSPECTORS)?
HOCUS-PCOS ANSWER: THE OPERATORS AND MANIPULATORS @ COMELEC-SMARTMATIC
The placement of the filled up ballots inside the big brown envelopes when the latter do not appear to be an official form and no there is no official instructions regarding such placement placed the entire election process, from casting and counting of votes, to transmission of results and safekeeping of evidence, under immense suspicion casting serious doubts on the integrity of the PCOS elections. - Glenn Chong
For supporting documents and detailed comparative tables on the 52 clustered precincts in Biliran where the 8 municipal canvassing systems all received transmitted results even before the PCOS actually transmitted them from the precincts, please click here.
Update:
From Francisco Tatad:
We just can’t do it anymore.
In 2010 and 2013, Smartmatic conducted our national elections on behalf of the Comelec, which has the exclusive constitutional authority to conduct elections. This was a grave violation of our nation’s sovereignty and our Constitution, and rendered the entire election illegitimate and invalid. The PCOS machine was illegally divested of all its security and safety features and accuracy mechanisms, rendering the results questionable at best.
Neither the political parties nor the public protested. It took a little while before Automated Election System (AES) Watch, Tanggulang Demokrasya (Tandem), the National Computer Society, and the National Transformation Council, among others, pointed out that we did not have real elections in 2010 and 2013, and that those who were “elected” in those elections were but de facto rather than de jure officials.
The whole process was additionally flawed. In 2010, US Ambassador Harry Thomas and a number of Western ambassadors preempted the process by formally recognizing B. S. Aquino 3rd as president-elect before Congress could complete its official canvassing of the votes and declare him “elected.” In 2013, the PCOS machines were programmed to produce a 60-30-10 across-the-board result in favor of PNoy’s senatorial candidates everywhere, including those places where the candidates were not at all known to the voters.
With the votes from 48 percent of the voting centers counted, the unheralded topnotcher, Grace Poe Llamanzares, posted 20 million votes at the Comelec website. Several days later, this figure was scaled down, without any explanation, to 16 million votes. When the votes from the remaining 52 percent of the voting centers were counted, she got an additional 186,000. Upon completion of the count, her votes went up finally to over 20 million. Not a few voters were shocked to find out that they had voted for Mrs. Llamanzares without their knowledge.
Criminal complaints were filed before the Ombudsman against then Comelec Chairman Jose Melo and other officials involved in the rigging of the 2010 elections. But until now, the Ombudsman has not acted on these complaints. The office has acted with far greater dispatch on partisan complaints in pursuit of selective justice against non-believers in PNoy’s administration.
