Poll Fraud Whistle Blowers No Proof, Comelec Investigates

There are claims that there are some people who manage to cheat in the May 2010 national election. A whistle blower came to ABS-CBN saying that his group was able to manipulate the results of votes for some candidate in exchange of money from politicians. He said that for every vote for a national candidate cost P20.00 while for the local level it costs P10.00. He also narrated how their illegal activities worked. Based on the interview, they claimed that they were able to transmit election returns to the central server of the comelec.

Although these were mere allegations, the whistle blower did not want to be identified nor want to testify in hearings if the congress and the comelec will look into the accusation.

The congressional hearing stopped the presentation of the video of the whistle blower named robin since what he says are all hearsays.

Even if these were just some gimmicks of some loosing politicians, the comelec should still investigate this. The allegation that Mayor Jejomar Binay was one of their clients is a big concern for us.

We don't want to have another set of illegitimate leaders.

It is a fact that the comelec and smartmatic have so many flaws in the conduct of the May elections. Right now the comelec created a body investigating the recovery of some compact flash (CF) cards in a junk shop in Cagayan De Oro City.

Automation is good however, some safeguards were removed or not implemented. This makes the process open to fraud, cheating and other forms of illegal activities that benefits some politicians.