Comelec chief Sixto Brillantes is rushing a staggering P7 billion - TopicsExpress



          

Comelec chief Sixto Brillantes is rushing a staggering P7 billion for the supplier-repairer of 43,000 new and 86,000 old voting machines. He wants it paid out by Dec. 4, even if retiring with two other commissioners on Feb. 2. It must be the commissioner role. They are favoring the shady Venezuelan Smartmatic Corp. The firm had fooled the government into believing it is the developer-software owner of the precinct count optical scanners (PCOS). That was a serious breach of the Automated Election Law, which guided the 2010 and 2013 balloting. To date the government has paid more than P13 billion to Smartmatic for the erratic PCOS, its add-ons, and storage. In 2010 and 2013 Smartmatic failed to give the PCOS source code for review, precisely because it is a mere dealer, not developer-owner. Its PCOS dry runs had flopped. Prescribed security features were taken out, like the precinct inspectors’ exclusivity to run the machines, vote verification, and non-rewritable compact flash drives. In 2013 the PCOS never completed the ballot counting and national tally canvassing. Transmission bogged down. Senatorial results showed an odd 60-30-10-percent trend for administration-opposition-independent candidates. No random manual audit followed. In sum, the Comelec has thrown a good P13 billion to Smartmatic. And it is throwing P7 billion for more of the bad PCOS.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:18:14 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015