May 20,2010 - I partially heard a news this morning about a whistle-blower who claims that they've hacked the PCOS machines that were used during this month's election. In the interview, Mojo Jojo was speaking with the Smartmatic guy/rep (forgot his name) and Paul Farol, the award-winning blogger and author of Manila Review who answered some questions and shared informative data about this whole new election system.
I have yet to watch the in-demand video of the masked guy who claims to have shaved off millions of votes, a couple of months prior the election day. But according to the news, his statements are very incredible and he provides insufficient machine terminologies and details (which i believe he must be able at least mention since it's an automated thing that we are talking about).
From what i've heard, the man said that they have their own flash cards, with cheated data on it, installed into the machines. The Smartmatic guy said that it's very unlikely to happen. First, the assigned technicians held the machines from day 1 till the distribution nationwide. Take note that they have military forces with them everyday. Also, those FC's only contain precint numbers and the storage space for the submitted ballots. So it cannot contain any pre-added data without having a single ballot inserted and verified.
And so on..
I've also learned that PCOS machines were just leased from another country for more or less P1B and that it has saved Comelec P4B against the manual election. Purchasing it costs P2B (so why don't we just purchase it instead?!) but they said that the Comelec hasn't decided anything about it as of yet.
I just thought that the electronic system used is far better than the manual election - when we speak of defraud possibilities, transmission, retrieval and counting. It may have flaws, but for me, for a good 90% it was successful.
Critics will always be there, attention-seekers are inevitable, and losers who are not capable of accepting their loss... are and will always be LOSERS!
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