SOTTO EXPOSE MERITS IMMEDIATE BONGBONG RECOUNT!

07 March 2018

The expose by Sen. Tito Sotto of alleged irregularities in the 2016 elections (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/973202/sotto-bares-irregularities-in-2016-polls) warrants the IMMEDIATE RECOUNT of votes covered by Bongbong Marcos’ protest against Leni Robredo.

Sotto said there was a transmission of votes as early as May 8 until the following morning, Election Day, by IP Address 10.11.5.5 to 0507.ccs.pili2016pinas.net. The transmission code pointed to the Consolidated Canvassing System (CCS) of Libon in Albay. Leni defeated Bongbong in Albay, and in four out of the five other Bicol provinces.

Sotto said the Albay transmission was just an example “of the numerous early transmissions to different Municipal and Provincial Board of Canvassers in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.” Bongbong is seeking a recount in some 30 provinces and a nullification of election results in some five cities nationwide.

The transmission of voters was designed and managed by Smartmatic, which also made an UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATION on the script of the transparency server on the night of Election Day and admitted to using another server which they did not inform Comelec about. To this day, the Comelec has NOT PENALIZED OR EVEN QUESTIONED Smartmatic on these issues,  as well as on several other SUSPICIOUS acts of the company during and after the 2016 elections.

Most of all Smartmatic and Comelec STILL REFUSE TO COME OUT with the unauthorized alteration on the script, and with an explanation on other signs of cheating during the 2016 polls. A computer expert I consulted warned that with almost two years after the elections, a whole damn lot of things could have been done already to the transparency server and other poll paraphernalia, like the data in SD cards which had been first reported as UNUSED by Comelec itself.

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