Kamusta Si PNOY?

[ctan]

Unelected and Illegal Government of Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III
by Nicanor Perlas

June 30, marks the transition into power of all government officials elected during the recent May 10, 2010 automated elections. Many believe that these officials, including the President, Vice-President, and Senators were duly elected by the will of the people. Unfortunately, and no little thanks to the complicity and spin of many mainstream media establishments, this new set of local and national government officials were all illegally installed. They are the beneficiaries of a silent de facto civilian coup engineered by the country's elitewho perpetuated massive fraud in the nation's first automated elections.

This "electronic Garci" dwarfs the manual cheating done by Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner "Garci" in the 2004 presidential elections. In effect, we now have a "new" government by virtue of corrupt operators who subverted our democracy. Consider the following.

Legal Violations of RA 9369 by Comelec

From the very beginning, Comelec, tasked by the Philippine Constitution to ensure clean and honest elections, did the very opposite of their mandate and responsibility. Comelec violated practically every major provision of Republic Act 9369, popularly known as the law mandating the use of an Automated Election System (AES).

Among others, Comelec violated the following provisions of RA 9369:

No pre-testing of AES in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao;

No public examination of the source code to be used by the Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machines;

Dismantling of the PCOS UV security system;

Removal of the Voter Verification feature; remember the infamous "congratulations" you got on the PCOS machine instead of a list verifying your vote?;

Re-configuration of Compact Flash (CF) cards without proper oversight;

No digital signatures (on Electronic Returns) as defined and required by RA 9369 and the Electronic Commerce Act;

No clear inventory and accountability of millions of unused ballots;

CF cards carried to canvassing center without security;

Random Manual Audit (RMA) not done in the polling place and on the day itself and remained incomplete weeks after the elections;

Hash codes in the Antipolo PCOS machines do not match published Comelec Hash Codes, showing that the Antipolo PCOS machines are illegal.

Highly Suspicious Activities

In addition, a few days before the elections, Comelec quietly sent out 20 CF cards and 2 "burners" to all provinces in the country, or a total 1600 CF cards and 160 "burners". If one is computer literate and has access to the appropriate software, then this provision basically gives the necessary tools to operators to fraudulently tamper with election results, which they did. (See related discussion below.)

Despite warnings by the IT community, Comelec continuously assured the voting public that there will only be minimal problems with the electronic transmission of votes. Yet, on election day itself, there was a massive failure of transmission of votes, affecting more than 30% of all votes. The transmission failures gave political operators the opportunity to manually and electronically manufacture the votes.

Again, despite warnings by professionals and concerned citizens based on time and motion studies, Comelec assured the general public that there would be no delays in the voting. But during election day, there were very long lines. Many voters waited in line for hours in order to vote. But a significant number went home after experiencing delays lasting more than 6 hours. Five to eight million voters were disenfranchised in the process.

Even worst, because of transmission problems, Comelec lowered the threshold for canvassing of votes from 100% precinct returns, to sometimes, less than 70%. So even those who voted were disenfranchised because, in the end, their votes were not counted. And these figures do not include the highly problematic "null votes" numbering in the millions, votes that were also cast aside uncounted.

Common Pattern of Fraudulent Operations

Because Comelec dismantled key security features of the AES, political operators, including Comelec employees and Smartmatic technicians, were able to hijack the system and manufacture the "winners" of the May 2010 elections.

The House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms conducted investigations on the fraud committed during the recent elections. A significant number of candidates for congressmen, governor, and mayor testified in the Committee hearings. Significantly, their independent stories converged into a pattern of fraudulent operations that manufactured the "winners" of the recent elections.

Candidates were offered victory at the polls. The offer presented precise numbers and percentages of voters who will vote for the candidate.

The operators sold their illegal "services" for a price ranging from P10/vote to as high as P500/vote.

When the candidates refused the offer, the operators offered the same package to the opponents of the candidates.

Oftentimes, these opponents were not as popular as the candidates who refused the offer to cheat in their behalf. The opponents did not have large crowds in campaign rallies and did not campaign as much as the candidate. The opponents, certain of their "victory" also displayed arrogant and cocky behavior towards the candidate testifying in Congress.

Modus Operandi of Fraud

The Committee hearings and other evidence revealed how the political operators manufactured the results of the May 2010 elections. Their method relied on:

Pre-programmed Primary CF Cards

Pre-shaded ballots

Interception of Transmissions

Collusion with Smartmatic Technicians and Comelec officials

Even Congressman Teodoro Locsin, Chairman of the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms, in his Committee Report, makes this observation as reported in the 29 June 2010 issue of the Daily Tribune:

"Voting logged as taking place hours after the close of voting hours, with ballots logged as having been fed to the voting machine at a fast and unvarying rate consistent only with one person doing it, are not just suspicious but invalid as well."

Another fingerprint of fraud is the mismatch between Smartmatic's internal data and the transmission figures reported by TV stations on the evening of election day and newspapers the following day. On May 10, 2010, Comelec announced on 11:11pm, barely 4 hours after elections, that 57% or 21 million votes were already received from precincts all over the country. On the contrary, according to the congressional Committee testimony of the operations manager of LRA, which handled the secret Smartmatic National Data Center, their field technicians were reporting that only 20% of the precinct votes have come in.

Obviously the big question is why the huge difference between the two figures? Clearly an unknown data source was broadcasting fake election results into the central server of Comelec.

Not to be left behind, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) became a de facto watchdog for Comelec instead of the voting public. Despite the massive evidence of fraud emerging at the local and national levels, PPCRV's silence on the matter was defeaning.

Yes, there were political operators selling manufactured votes and corrupt politicians spending millions to buy their illegal services. And yes, Comelec had failed to do its regulatory duty and opened the floodgates for massive cheating. But, in the end, fraud would have not taken place at the massive scale that it did without the silent complicity of survey outfits, mainstream media, and the PPCRV.

May 2010 Elections: Invalid and Void From the Beginning

If an election process wantonly violates the law, can one consider the election results valid? The obvious common sense and legal answer is a resounding "No!". The recent national elections were void and invalid from the beginning. Therefore, the national and local officials who were "elected" by this fraudulent process cannot claim to be the authentic and legitimate beneficiaries of the "will" of the electorate.

Many are longing for a new beginning with the incoming government. Do not hold your breath. A new government conceived in fraud cannot become the center of a moral and systemic transformation that this country is longing for.

It is obvious that a moral and effective governance cannot arise on the basis of massive fraud. Citizens have to act now to challenge the new de facto civilian coup that the recent elections have placed in power.

[pong]

^ hmmm maybe i can help. aside from the insufficient audit trail, the files were not encrypted. the law in itself (RA 9369) should have consulted not only the legal experts, but the IT experts who knows the trends in encryption methods to prevent fraud.  hey, after all, even with strict controls, as long as there is override, everything will be in vain.

[ctan]

if this is indeed a serious allegation of Perlas, then he has to lobby for the investigation of this issue.

[vir]

if this is indeed a serious allegation of Perlas, then he has to lobby for the investigation of this issue.

doc ctan,idol na talaga kita..hindi ka lng pang medical,pang law pa.. galing mo attorney ctan.. =)

[ctan]

^^ hahaha. kakatawa ka vir! hahaha!

[vir]

^^ hahaha. kakatawa ka vir! hahaha!

haha..may tym ka pa bang mag-aral?karirin mo na yan..tingin ko kaya mo pa mag law..hehe..

[pong]

teacher na, doctor na, lawyer pa. nawks naman doc!!! Ctan for president!

ang jingle: korupsiyon ay tantanan, ihalal si dr. tan
tapos si angel locsin ang endorser <3