House Committee on Suffrage Minutes of Hearings on Electoral Fraud for May 26, 28 sessions now available

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House Committee on Suffrage: Minutes of hearings on electoral fraud

Halalang Marangal (HALAL) managed to get the minutes of the hearings being conducted by the House Committee on Suffrage on the May 10, 2010 elections and the fraud allegedly committed to tamper with the results. The minutes are all in PDF files, so you need to download them first, then use a PDF viewer to [...]

Smartmatic claims: “Votes tallied & Presidential Winner known in Record Time in Philippines Election”

The Smartmatic claims below may be found on the Smartmatic website here. Smartmatic electoral Solution Delivers First Ever national Automated Election in THE Philippines Largest Election Ever by Private Company: Nearly 80,000 Voting Machines Deployed Smartmatic voting solution delivers 100% accuracy, reliability and auditability Manila, Philippines, May 12, 2010 – In the wake of the [...]

Please check http://pcoswatch.wordpress.com

Henceforth, I am moving all posts about election fraud in the May 2010 elections to another site, also maintained by Halalang Marangal (HALAL), at http://pcoswatch.wordpress.com. You are all welcome to continue browsing this site, of course, but if it is news and analysis on election fraud you want, you will find most of it in [...]

Some more advice to protesting candidates in the May 2010 elections

Among the ERs in your possession, choose those where you got the lowest votes. Among these precincts, identify where you are strongest, i.e. where you are sure you have many more supporters who voted for you than the votes the ER says you got. Collect sworn statements from these supporters, attesting that they are registered [...]

More advice to protesting candidates

If you are protesting your loss in the May 2010 elections, get the circumstances behind the random manual audit (RMA) that should have been conducted in five clustered precincts in your congressional district. These audits should have been conducted right after the ERs were transmitted and the final 22 copies printed, on May 10, where [...]

Advice to all candidates who are contesting their loss in the 2010 elections

If you are a candidate contesting your loss in the 2010 elections, there is something you must do right away: Ask the responsible Comelec official in your jurisdiction to copy the file “slog.txt” in the CF card, and to give you a print out of the copy, each page marked as a certified true copy. [...]

The 1-3pm House Committee on Suffrage hearings on automated election fraud

These hearings are turning out to be very informative, as well as entertaining. I suggest you all listen to these two-hour hearings regularly. I will try to clarify some of the exchanges that went on in the past two hearings. On the wrong data and time stamp Many did not immediately get the Smartmatic explanation, [...]

Discrepancies found by PPCRV: tip of the iceberg?

News reports say the PPCRV has received 70,255 and encoded 43,035 election returns (ERs). Out of these, they found 29 discrepancies, or an average of one in 1,484 ERs (.07% error rate). PPCRV chair Henrietta de Villa was quoted saying, “We can say that the election is clean because the discrepancy is very minimal.” Unfortunately, [...]

Whistleblower video on automated fraud in the 2010 Philippine elections

The video that features an alleged whistleblower in the massive election fraud during the May 10, 2010 elections in the Philippines is now available on YouTube. In four parts, the video may be found below. Posting it on this blog does not mean I believe everything claimed in the video. You should decide for yourself. [...]

Urgent! Stop the destruction of those Compact Flash (CF) cards!

This is a most urgent call to the Comelec. We also urge all candidates, the courts, media, the public to support this call and to act on it immediately. THE COMELEC SHOULD RESCIND ITS ORDER TO DESTROY THE CF CARDS! THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CF CARDS MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY! These cards may contain vital evidence [...]

The Comelec pulled off a fast count alright, but is it accurate?

The count reached millions within a few hours, and was 90% complete within a week. That’s supposed to be impressive. Stunning, even. But every time I ask, “so, how accurate are the counting machines?” I get a blank stare, including a surprising “I don’t know” from Mr. Gene Gregorio, Smartmatic spokesman. He gave this answer [...]

Too soon to call 2010 elections successful

It is too soon to declare the 2010 elections a success. People want a successful election so badly, that it is easy to get carried away by flood of incoming election returns. Many want to believe that a clean and honest election has finally happened, at last. But the vice-presidential election is yet to be [...]

2010 election surprise: Binay leading Roxas

ROBERTO VERZOLA, Halalang Marangal (HALAL) http://www.gmanews.tv/story/190631/2010-election-surprise-binay-leading-roxas The most recent Comelec report (May 10, 2010, 11:30 p.m., 57% of all election returns canvassed) as of this writing suggests that the 2010 presidential election is an Aquino landslide. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III seems to be getting roughly three votes for every two votes for Joseph “Erap” Estrada [...]

Last-minute reminders for the active voter

Vote early; vote with your conscience. Watch over your precinct cluster and its voting machine. Answer the “good or ghost” question: Was the process clean or not? If not, why not? Note the cluster number and the PCOS serial number (you can get it from the publicly displayed Election Return or ER). Note the number [...]

Expect a flood of demands for recount from losing candidates

The PCOS fiasco a few days before the May 10 elections has shattered the credibility not only of election automation, but of the entire electoral process itself. The entire process hinges on an accurate count by the PCOS machine. In fact, COMELEC specifications require at least 99.995% accuracy, or at most one error for every [...]

A discussion paper on parallel counts and postponing elections

[You may download this discussion paper here.] The erroneous counts reported during the final field testing of PCOS machines and traced to the gross misalignment of ovals on the local side of the ballots have shattered public confidence in the voting machines. As a result, two different proposals have been raised: one is to postpone [...]

HALAL Statement: Smartmatic ballot production software was not certified

HALAL STATEMENT Last April 30, in response to a request by candidate Joey de Venecia III, the Comelec made public a set of documents relating to the source code review of the Smartmatic software conducted by SysTest Labs Inc. One of the documents was “Certification Test Summary for AES May 2010 Rev. 1.00”, dated March [...]

Smartmatic machines are not so smart after all

We are spending P7.2 billion to lease these “smart automatic” machines. It turns out that they are not so smart after all. In fact, they seem downright stupid. They can’t recognize a check mark or a cross. They can’t recognize ballpen or pencil marks. They need full, dark shadings to be convinced that you want [...]

HALAL analysis of recently-released SysTest source code review

Halalang Marangal (HALAL) recently obtained a copy of the SysTest report on the source code review of the Smartmatic software that it conducted Oct. 26, 2009 to Feb. 9, 2010. This review was the basis for the Comelec concluding that the Smartmatic Automated Election System will count our May 10 votes properly, securely and accurately. [...]