Poll truth out
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Now the truth over the 2010 election, which certainly was fraud-filled, is out, after Smartmatic sued Dominion Voting Systems International in the US.
All that time, the source code for the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines was never supplied to the central bank and the Comelec, and yet both the Comelec and Smartmatic lied about all this, claiming that the source code was submitted, and that there were no anomalies at all, with Comelec commissioners and even the yellows claiming that the 2010 presidential polls were the cleanest yet.
In the lawsuit, Smartmatic charged that Dominion breached its obligations under a license agreement by, among other reasons, “failing to deliver fully functional technology for use in the 2010 Philippines national election; failing to provide timely technical support during and after the Philippines election”; and “failing to place in escrow the required source code, hardware design and manufacturing information.”
During the elections Smartmatic insisted that a source code was secured and even boasted that it was ready for review by local experts but it was, however, never subjected to any verification after the elections. Nor was the source code even given to the Comelec and the central bank.
Apparently, all three were lying through their teeth, which was why the source code was never made public.
And there were already many flaws of which both Smartmatic Philippines and the Melo Comelec were aware.
As stated in the Smartmatic complaint, it said that during a test of the automated voting system conducted shortly before the election, Comelec and Smartmatic discovered a defect in the Licensed Technology-Dominion International’s software (that) failed to correctly read and record the paper ballot. Once Dominion acknowledged the problem with the software and proposed a solution, Smartmatic International had to obtain, load, distribute and install new memory cards with the reprogrammed software to over 76,000 PCOS voting systems, most of which had already been delivered to the various polling stations located throughout the 7,100 islands in the archipelago. Even that was not a guarantee of the PCOS correctly reading and recording the paper ballot.
And yet, at that point, Smartmatic, abetted by the Comelec commissioners, lied about the reason for the new set of memory cards, which incidentally, screwed up the polls, as not all these new memory cards were distributed, which was why there were, in many voting precincts, records of ballots not being printed, as well as machines not recording the votes.
Yet the Comelec commissioners kept the nation in the dark, and kept on claiming how clean the polls were. Again, they lied to the people.
All safeguards were removed, probably because of the fact that too many essentials for the PCOS system were never supplied by Smartmatic and Dominion to the Philippines.
Again, as admitted by Smartmatic in its suit against Dominion, the complaint said: “To effectively service, modify or enhance the licensed products, as authorized by the license agreement, Smartmatic International must have either Dominion’s contracted for assistance or access to the escrowed materials. Dominion International’s refusal to provide the products and support requested by Smartmatic International may, therefore, only be remedied by the release of the materials in escrow, or required to be escrowed.”
There were never the needed materials placed in escrow. “Dominion International has not deposited a complete set of these materials; Dominion did not place in escrow any of the required materials until May 2012,” the complaint stated.
The point is, why did Smartmatic officials lie through their teeth, and why did the Melo Comelec go along with these lies?
In much the same way, aware of the fact that the PCOS machines are flawed and vulnerable to fraud, apart from the fact that there is no source code to speak of for these 2013 polls, why did the Brillantes Comelec insist on buying these flawed PCOS machines?
That the present commissioners knew about this, cannot be denied, given the fact that many of the commissioners then are still in office.
Everything certainly smells much too fishy in the Brillantes Comelec.
All that time, the source code for the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines was never supplied to the central bank and the Comelec, and yet both the Comelec and Smartmatic lied about all this, claiming that the source code was submitted, and that there were no anomalies at all, with Comelec commissioners and even the yellows claiming that the 2010 presidential polls were the cleanest yet.
In the lawsuit, Smartmatic charged that Dominion breached its obligations under a license agreement by, among other reasons, “failing to deliver fully functional technology for use in the 2010 Philippines national election; failing to provide timely technical support during and after the Philippines election”; and “failing to place in escrow the required source code, hardware design and manufacturing information.”
During the elections Smartmatic insisted that a source code was secured and even boasted that it was ready for review by local experts but it was, however, never subjected to any verification after the elections. Nor was the source code even given to the Comelec and the central bank.
Apparently, all three were lying through their teeth, which was why the source code was never made public.
And there were already many flaws of which both Smartmatic Philippines and the Melo Comelec were aware.
As stated in the Smartmatic complaint, it said that during a test of the automated voting system conducted shortly before the election, Comelec and Smartmatic discovered a defect in the Licensed Technology-Dominion International’s software (that) failed to correctly read and record the paper ballot. Once Dominion acknowledged the problem with the software and proposed a solution, Smartmatic International had to obtain, load, distribute and install new memory cards with the reprogrammed software to over 76,000 PCOS voting systems, most of which had already been delivered to the various polling stations located throughout the 7,100 islands in the archipelago. Even that was not a guarantee of the PCOS correctly reading and recording the paper ballot.
And yet, at that point, Smartmatic, abetted by the Comelec commissioners, lied about the reason for the new set of memory cards, which incidentally, screwed up the polls, as not all these new memory cards were distributed, which was why there were, in many voting precincts, records of ballots not being printed, as well as machines not recording the votes.
Yet the Comelec commissioners kept the nation in the dark, and kept on claiming how clean the polls were. Again, they lied to the people.
All safeguards were removed, probably because of the fact that too many essentials for the PCOS system were never supplied by Smartmatic and Dominion to the Philippines.
Again, as admitted by Smartmatic in its suit against Dominion, the complaint said: “To effectively service, modify or enhance the licensed products, as authorized by the license agreement, Smartmatic International must have either Dominion’s contracted for assistance or access to the escrowed materials. Dominion International’s refusal to provide the products and support requested by Smartmatic International may, therefore, only be remedied by the release of the materials in escrow, or required to be escrowed.”
There were never the needed materials placed in escrow. “Dominion International has not deposited a complete set of these materials; Dominion did not place in escrow any of the required materials until May 2012,” the complaint stated.
The point is, why did Smartmatic officials lie through their teeth, and why did the Melo Comelec go along with these lies?
In much the same way, aware of the fact that the PCOS machines are flawed and vulnerable to fraud, apart from the fact that there is no source code to speak of for these 2013 polls, why did the Brillantes Comelec insist on buying these flawed PCOS machines?
That the present commissioners knew about this, cannot be denied, given the fact that many of the commissioners then are still in office.
Everything certainly smells much too fishy in the Brillantes Comelec.
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