Junio says Smartmatic is not vulnerable to election stupidity
MAASIN CITY — Is the common complaint among losing candidates during elections that fraud and cheating were committed be totally erased with the change in the voting system to computerization or automation? Can the Manila-programmed and configured computers that are going to be used in the upcoming national elections be tapped for re-programming and re-configuring by computer experts in different places where elections are to be held under the clandestine connivance in favor of any high ranking government officials who seek for re-elections?
Provincial assistant Comelec officer Reuel Junio explained that the Smartmatic company has an independent connections not connected to any person or group with vested interest.
“The computerization voting is not vulnerable to fraud and cheating since the computers to be used cannot be re-programmed or re-configured by just anybody who is skilled in computer operations,” he said. “Smartmatic will not gamble any kind of stupidity that will damage its reputation. The company whose main base is in Argentina has branches in Europe, Latin America, and USA that earns billions of dollars. It will not swap its good image to connivance in committing fraud or cheating in the upcoming elections on May 10, 2010 by any reelectionist high ranking government officials who have the clout with the current administration.”
He implied that any aspiring candidate in the coming national elections either for president, senator, congressman or mayor should not imagine for themselves in fear or apprehension that fraud and cheating would be committed during the first ever held computer automation elections this coming May 10, 2010.
On the other hand, he said that the total number of voters in Maasin City alone at present is 50,095 including new registrants.
When asked about the total number of voters including the new registrants, he said that at present his office is still gathering some data sent by election officers in different municipalities of the province. They are still in the process of consolidating all the data sent to them with only two municipalities that have not yet sent their total voters list.
He said that most probably, the two municipalities, which he did not mention, will send theirs the following day or the next and that in less than two weeks time any media entity can get the total number of voters provincewide. “We have to re-check the data sent to us before releasing it to the media”, the assistant Comelec officer said. (Quirico M. Gorpido Jr.)
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