Comelec Trust Factor under Question

MAPping the Future
Can we trust Comelec?
By Manuel A. Alcuaz Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 22:49:00 01/17/2010

Filed Under: Eleksyon 2010, Inquirer Politics

THE coming may 2010 elections are critical for the future of our nation. We will have the opportunity to elect a new president, vice president, 12 senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, provincial board members, and councilors.

Our citizens seem to be clamoring for change and are looking forward to electing a new set of leaders in May 2010 but will their votes be counted properly?

I wish the answer were yes but Comelec’s behavior in 2004, 2007, and in preparation for the coming elections give me cause to worry about what will happen in May 2010.

I hope and pray that I am wrong.

There is one or more good commissioner and I am sure there are hundreds of honest career employees in Comelec. But will they be strong enough to stop the corrupt elements in their midst?

Hello Garci!

In 2004 there was massive fraud in ARMM.

My comparison of Namfrel’s partial count and Comelec’s count indicated approximately 598,560 dagdag bawas in favor of GMA in ARMM alone.

In Pampanga the Namfrel ranks must have been infiltrated because GMA had 80.4 percent vs FPJ 10.6 percent. In neighboring provinces such as Nueva Ecija, La Union, Bulacan, it was the opposite.

Comelec has done nothing to punish those who committed fraud.

Maguindanao 2007

In Maguindanao in 2007 the administration senators won 12-0! Zubiri was number 1 and Chavit Singson was No. 2.

Zubiri got 95.75 percent of the Maguindanao vote in his home province he got 84 percent. He beat Kiram, a Muslim and the No. 1 choice in the rest of ARMM.

In spite of the obvious fraud in Maguindanao and the killing of Musa Dimasidsing, a school supervisor who exposed election cheating in Maguindanao, the Comelec canvassed the Maguindanao COC. That is why we now have a Senator Zubiri instead of Sen. Koko Pimentel.

Comelec again seems to have done nothing about the fraud and the murder of their supervisor.

When they can’t cheat you in the election, they cheat you in the recount!

Smartmatic contract

There are many who can point to bid specs that were irrelevant to the proper operation of an AES System and to biased evaluation on vendor compliance to said bid specs. Many bidders were eliminated.

But that would take time to prove.

However, the fact that the Comelec has already paid Smartmatic more than P1 billion for almost no delivery is not hard to see. The Comelec contract provides for payment of P719 million for project initialization, set up project management, and project systems including SW licenses and firmware. In the Smartmatic bid, the entire project management was P99, 999, 999 and software was less than P43 million! An overpayment of P576 million.

The second payment was for P359 million for 20 test machines. That’s about P18 million per machine. In the Smartmatic bid each machine was P45, 000. An overpayment of P358 million!

If Comelec and Smartmatic can come up with creative contract terms that are not in compliance with the RFP (request for proposal) and even Smartmatic’s own financial bid, and these terms are very favorable for Smartmatic and unfavorable for Comelec, can we trust Comelec?

Fraud proof?

Unfortunately, the Comelec with the assistance of media companies and civic organizations is succeeding in creating the impression that automation will eliminate cheating in the counting and canvassing.

While it eliminates misreading ‘mistallying,’ and calculation errors, the Comelec—Smartmatic AES has no transparency.

It is very secure against hacking by outsiders, but has no safeguards against an inside job!

PCOS risks and safeguards

I will not discuss risks of equipment or software malfunction. I leave that for others to spend time on.

My main concern is with fraud-related risks.

OMR risks

The first risk is related to the OMR (optical mark reading) ballot.

The candidates’ names are already pre-printed in the ballot. All the voter has to do is to mark an oval in front of the candidates of choice.

This seems convenient for the voter. Unfortunately, it is also convenient for the vote buyers. They can quickly mark the ballots of someone who has sold his vote.

Near the end of the day, in a precinct controlled by a warlord, all unused ballots can be quickly marked and fed into the PCOS machine.

How does someone file a protest? Difficult. With handwritten ballots one can identify common handwriting of names. How do you identify common shading?

Computer program risks

The real danger in the PCOS machine is in the formula that is used to add up the votes read when the ballots are scanned.

The various parties could demand to see the formulas of the 1,600 + municipalities or congressional districts. But how can you be sure that the proper formulas will be loaded in all 82,000 PCOS machines?

Safeguard

The only safeguard I can see is to increase the manual audit of PCOS machines to 10 percent in each canvassing center. The machines to be manually audited should be chosen at random.

Every time a PCOS machine has a wide discrepancy, two more PCOS machine should be randomly selected for manual audit.

If no discrepancies are found then the results of the election would be credible.

Congress should require the Comelec to increase the machine to be manually audited from one per congressional district to 10 percent per canvassing center.

Is the Comelec transmission and canvassing system transparent and auditable?

Unfortunately, my study of the Smartmatic bid shows that the transparency and ‘auditability’ of the old manual canvassing system has been completely removed in favor of speed.

We are faced with the danger that by May 15, 2010 a new president, vice president, and 12 senators may be proclaimed. But they may not be the ones the people voted for. They could be the ones that Comelec and or Smartmatic insiders cheated for!

The manual system is slow but the parties, citizens’ arms, media, and ordinary citizens get to see that the ERs have authentic signatures.

If the canvassing center has a board, they can see the results for each precinct and compare them with a printed copy of the ER or a photo they could have taken. They could even add up the votes of each candidate to verify that the COC is right.

No transparency and auditability in AES!

The Smartmatic proposed system has no transparency or ‘auditability.’

According to Comelec and Smartmatic, ERs will be electronically transmitted from PCOS machines to municipal canvassing servers.

BEIs need an electronic key and password to enable transmission. But do they see what they are transmitting?

How can we be sure that what was printed by the PCOS is the same as what is transmitted?

The canvassing system generates canvass reports every 15 minutes. But nowhere in the bid does Smartmatic say that it will show the results received.

Comelec has not defined a process for watchers to compare their ERs (election returns) with what was electronically transmitted.

When all the ERs have been received a COC (certificate of canvass) is printed out.

That is scary, winning candidates can be proclaimed without any comparison of the tabulation being conducted!

Comelec claims that in compliance with RA 9369 it will transmit to the majority party, minority party, citizens’ arm, and media electronic copies of the ERs.

Problems

In addition it has a website where all ERs will be available.

There are a number of problems with this scenario:

1. The audit should be done at each canvassing center not on a server somewhere in Manila.

2. The ERs will be encrypted. If the sender changes its encryption key, the receiver will just see unreadable information.

3. The Comelec website will definitely crash on election night and a few days after.

The best safeguard is to provide the parties, the citizens’ arm, and media with a PC and projector.

The PCOS machines should transmit to the Comelec canvassing server and the four PCs.

Prior to printing the official COC, a comparison should be made between the five machines. Any discrepancies should be reconciled.

This solution is not very expensive, a PC with a projector should cost less than P50, 000. Let’s say 7,000 sets are needed. That will only cost P350 million.

Much less than almost P5 billion being spent on 82,200 PCOS machines that will speed up the counting by 3 to 5 hours!

Let us do something to assure honest and credible elections. And that the voice of the people triumphs.

(The article reflects the personal opinion of the author and does not reflect the official stand of the Management Association of the Philippines. The author is president of Systems Sciences Consult Inc. Feedback at map@globelines.com.ph. For previous articles, please visit .)

Absent Government Policy Leads to loss of fingers, etc….

These are some news article first-liners, or titles:
“Philippine government appeals against firecracker use at New Year
”
From Earthtimes (press release)
By : dpa Manila – “The Philippines’ health department Thursday issued a
 last-minute appeal for Filipinos to refrain from using firecrackers during
 rowdy New Year Celebrations.”
This is where this government of one should put its foot down. This is where all these expensive lawmakers should earn their keep, instead of waiting for dole-outs from their  Queen Rat.   Instead of waiting for their countrymen to lose fingers, entire hands, sometimes their eyesight, among other things,  a law should already be passed banning the manufacture of these powerful firecrackers.  They have them in all sorts and sizes. The larger, the more powder content they contain.  Mostly kids and teenagers are those who suffer the most from the damage inflicted upon them by weapons grade firecrackers.  Is the Bulacan lobby for the continued operation of the firecracker plants that rich and powerful?  Are they capable of bribing all the Congressmen in exchange for being given the option to inflict a lifetime’s worth of damage on our mostly young and foolish countrymen?
Are they not responsible in some way for creating mini-bombs that can easily blow a whole hand away, and not need to answer to anyone for the harm they have caused?  Has no one ever filed a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of these overloaded with gunpowder firecrackers in exchange for the damage done to them?  Who is to blame for the loss of one’s hand, or several digits caused by an overly powerful firecracker?  Of course, the manufacturers will cry “caveat emptor” to the people.  Does that erase the responsibility from them for hurting people because the government, neither the local  nor the national has failed to set strict standards and limit their sale of goods to sparklers and the like?
Have these idiots who make the fireworks not even realized that by assembling these implements of destruction by hand, their handling of gunpowder sans hand protection shall have long-term effects on them?
Is it not ridiculous that a government that declares martial law as a means to control the charges that they will file on the murderers of Maguindanao cannot see the recklessness of the firecracker makers as a threat to the youth who are the primary victims of unsupervised
 manufacture of these vicious ‘crackers for decades now?  Hopefully their kids blow off a few fingers, or a hand maybe. Then maybe, in their anger, they may draft a law and convince the more intelligent House members that firecrackers are dangerous.   Their ignorance about something as simple as safe firecrackers and the of control in the manner by which they are made is dangerous. It means they remain unaware of the bigger problems in this country. Worst, it proves that they are in office to find a way to refresh their bank accounts to make up for what they spent in getting elected and more.
That is the scary part. That they make laws that make money for them and for their Queen, but do not anything much to move the economy or help exporters, or give tax breaks to start up businesses in order to help the economy grow.
  Sadly, ours is an economy of corruption and corrupt officials.  Short sighted?  Yes, they only have a few years to make hay, not laws. So they make laws to make hay.  So downward we sink, as our neighbors like Vietnam rise, and, we were told, it will take us thirty years to catch up to Thailand. Are there corrupt Thais? Yes, corruption is everywhere, from Russia to the USA, but their type of corruption is not as crazy as ours.  They know better. They re-invest in their own country, and make laws to open their economies to foreign money.  Here, the foreigners are made to immediately contribute to the economy.  Just try  asking foreign businessmen what they went through first at the Customs, then trying to get business permits at the proper government offices.  Stupid, shortsighted and selfish officials chase dollars away, or demand incredible cuts/commissions.  Here they don’t steal. They ransack.  These are the real traitors. They are in the news everyday,  pretending to do this and do that, but actually pillaging and robbing from anywhere they can.
 Yes, they should return the death sentence. You know for whom.
For hardly can they hear the bells that toll for them.

Smartmatic and more BS

Yeah, right.  What about vowing honesty?

Smartmatic vows faster delivery
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:13:00 12/31/2009

Filed Under: Elections, Eleksyon 2010, Computing & Information Technology

MANILA, Philippines—Smartmatic Tim Corp., the company that won the contract to supply the machine for the country’s first-ever computerized polls, on Wednesday delivered the first batch of electronic vote counting machines to the Commission on Elections.

Smartmatic turned over to Comelec Chair Jose Melo 4,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines that arrived at the North Harbor on Monday. The election machines to be used in the May 10, 2010, national elections were manufactured in China.

Smartmatic president Juan Villa assured Melo that the company would be able to complete the manufacture of all 82,200 machines at their plant in Shanghai by the first week of February.

“They will be ready for shipment by then. It’s a world-class facility what we have in Shanghai. So we won’t have problems with production,” Villa told reporters.

Smartmatic initially planned to produce the machines in Taiwan, but transferred production to China due to concerns over the weather.

The Comelec is paying Smartmatic P7.2 billion to provide the election equipment before the end of February.

Villa said the company can deliver about 10,000 machines a week to meet its Feb. 21 deadline.

“We will be delivering at the rate of 9,600 PCOS units every week, starting next week, until the end of February. Our target is to deliver all the 82,000 machines one week ahead of schedule,” Villa said.

The initial 4,000 PCOS machines were shown to the media on Wednesday. They were in five cargo trucks and were personally inspected by Melo and other Comelec officials.

Earlier in the day, an additional 3,200 PCOS machines were reported to have arrived in Manila and were to be turned over shortly.

The 7,200 PCOS units that have arrived in the country are still 35,000 short of the original target of 42,000 units to be delivered by the end of 2009.

Lawmakers and election stakeholders recently expressed apprehension that Smartmatic was way behind schedule in the delivery of the machines, and this could cut the time for testing the hardware and software.

But Melo quashed fears of a delay in the implementation of the automated polls.

“Our level of confidence has gone up. I’ve been telling the Smartmatic-TIM officials, ‘I have to see the machines before they get paid,’” Melo said.

Melo said the machines would be sent to a secure warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna, where they will be tested. They would be shipped to regional Comelec hubs by April.

“So that they will be nearer the precincts, they will be dispersed all over the country,” Melo said.

Smartmatic Banned By Hugo Chavez. What now?

I wrote this tohttp://donavictorina.blogspot.com/ I hope they give me a hand in looking for media help to probe/investigate the REAL Smartmatic. Check Alek’s Blog out too http://alekboyd.blogspot.com
What now?

Hi Guys,
Great site.  You must peruse this website, worked on by Alek Boyd- http://alekboyd.blogspot.com/ and see the story about Smartmatic.
The blog author, Alek, has been writing about how Hugo Chavez banned the company Smartmatic, a Venezuelan-based and owned
company, from operating in his country, that of Venezuela.  Bolivia has just jinked an offer by Smartmatic for automates elections. They are being banned now in other countries because of their HQ being shutdown by no less than Hugo Chavez.
Even if they helped Chaves cheat to remain President in that countries president, they are goving his country and that os millions a bad name by their international shenanigans. Now Mexico is rethinking their deal with Smartmatic.

Yet we remain, at least our COMELEC insists  on defending a company like Smartmatic, which is presently 96 DAYS behind all their programs and projects. Yet the COMELEC remains, which is upsetting, very
defensive of Smartmatic. If Comelec does not take them to task for non-delivery of goods, there will be surely be a failure of elections. I attended a seminar given by Gus Lagman and Harrry Roque’s partners at Club Filipino. It was extremely enlightening. I will write about it soon.
It looks like the P1.3 Billion already paid to them will not be returned by these crooks. Did you know that they are registered in Nigeria, or Somalia, or a similar country as a limited paid-up capital company. Which means that even if we sue them, we can only get what assets they have in the host country they registered in for Philippine election purposes.  Which is nothing compared to the amount of billions that they will getting for automating our elections. Somebody made hundreds of millions in this deal. Unfortunately for us, it appears that they and the COMELEC are headed towards a failure of elections.  It is unbelievable that our local media has not yet dug up the dirt on Smartmatic. Then again, P1.3 Billion can buy a lot of goodwill here. So maybe we can ignite ta fire in the minds of the Internet websites and blogs to get an investigation of Smartmatic going.  It is us who have everything to lose. The Venezuelans, who only showed up at the end of the first Senate Hearing, was there because the questions of the senators
was opening that can of worms that is the relationship between the Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM are playing us for fools.  A 96 day delay in all aspects of the contract is normally enough to call off the deal.  But like it seems that we cannot as they may reveal the names of those who made hundreds of Millions to see the deal through, what can we do?

Can we afford to have Gloria stay on as President past May 2010? Because it looks like aside from already having won the Pampanga Congressional seat she seeks, she is also ready to be President for as long as we allow her.  It is up to us.
How I wish my good friend Sheila Coronel were still here. We need PCIJ now more than ever. MY PCIJ compadre and co-worker at PCIJ Alecks Pabico passed away a few months ago at 42 of cancer. So my contacts are gone.  Maybe by posting this on my blog as well as writing you guys for help will make a difference. It always seemed to help in the past.  I am counting on you guys.

Thanks,

Gerry

Why Martial Law in Maguindanao? To release the murderers before May 2010.

The Ampatuan  Clan massacred at least 57 people in one mornings worth of bloodletting. Most of those they killed were women and journalists. It took 100 of their private army to kill the 57.  A new report yesterday also revealed that the reign of this warlord clan has possible killed a total of around 200 people since they took place as appointees of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo  in 2001.  They reciprocated the Arroyo favor by delivering an unbelievable number of votes for Arroyo and also made all her party’s 12 man Senate slate win in a trounce of 12-0. They magically made not only Arroyo win by millions, but also made her party win without granting a single vote to the opposition.   Presently, Gloria Arroyo proclaimed Martial Law in that province for the purposes of hunting down the Ampatuan clan.  But there is an obvious catch to Arroyo’s declaring Martial Law, and not charging the killers with murder en masse.  Arroyo knows that before she leaves the Office of the President, even if Martial Law has been lifted in that region, she can always issue a pardon to the Ampatuans by virtue of her powers as President.  And anyone arrested via martial law can be pardoned, no matter how many they killed, because the crime of rebellion, which is her basis of charging them, instead of murder, gives her the opportunity to pardon and have them all released before she steps down.  You have to hand it to this woman, no matter how many Filipinos and journalists are killed,  she always finds a way of getting them out to become freemen again.  This we suspect will happen before she steps down as President and assumes the position of  Congresswoman for her Pampanga district. Pampanga is a province north of Manila, and Gloria, instead of attending matters of the state, has gone to see the Pampanga province and it’s people at least 50 times in the past few months. Obviously campaigning.
Will the people let her get away with the murder of all these people by her loyal governors and mayors, positions that the Ampatuan Clan occupy?  Looks like no one is complaining. So therefore it is the government that we deserve that we will get.  Massacre or not, Gloria’s loyalty ton the Ampatuans is very obvious, and she can hardly wait to release them, which she can do if Martial Law is passed by Congress, which is made up of her cronies, a majority of which occupy the Lower House  of Congress. They will help her get the votes necessary to get Martial Law legalized and eventually get the Ampatuans released before May 2010.
It is pathetic how few real men occupy the halls of Congress. Most are Gloria’s lapdogs who do her will, even if it costs lives of innocent Filipinos.  No wonder Gloria Arroyo has been quiet about Martial Law. She is letting her lapdogs do the dirty work.  She will merely sign the Pardon next year and the killers of more than 200 will be free to kill again.

Gloria protecting allies in Maguinadanao ?

(re:  www.araymanila.com… aray literally translated means ouch, as in painful. pain is what almost all people expect those close to the president of the Philippines feel, and have been feeling for years now. God help us.)

A few days ago. a convoy of women, media practitioners and supporters of the Mangudadatus, a family that had recently gone to war with the Ampatuan clan in a turf war over the control of Maguidanao.  This is the usual way to gain control of provinces in Mindanao. After certain period of time, situations begin to boil over and one or two members of the warring clans gets killed.  Gloria had been buying the  loyalty of the Ampatuans  since she became President by the usual Palace practice of inviting Governors, Congressmen, Mayors, etc. to a lunch or dinner at the Palace and they all leave with shopping bags full of thousand peso bills and the goodwill of the leader, who hopes that she paid them enough for their loyalty.  This is the type  of politics that was re-introduced by Arroyo and based on a Marcos campaign style.  Thing is, sometimes, she buys off two warring factions and does not think of throwing in a requirement that they put their guns down if they want their money.   That was none of her business. What the fate of other Filipinos in these rated “dangerous”  provinces, in the Northen provinces and more so in Mindanao.  All she cared about was that they remain loyal to her alone. She would have nothing to do with boiling points, as in Maguindanao. All that matters, after all, is that these warlords keep their people in line and that come elections,
they see to it that by hook or by crook, their goons would herd innocent people into voting booths, and ensure that they writre her name on the ballot.   It was reminiscent of that day in Sept, whe two passenger planes crashed into the twin towers and the face and demeanor of Ex-President George George W. Bush was to remain frozen for way too long.
Time to make decisions, to give orders, to secure the Unites States of America, and this country cowboy froze.  Probably a result of spending his training days at the Guard having a good time with his pals at the ranch and too much of the white powder and all that.  But for Gloria, it was different. The people responsible for murdering raping, beheading and chopping off body parts from a total (as of today, as it rises daily) of 57 women, teenagers, old people and about 12 media practitioners are still free, as no instructions were issued for them to be arrested. The mastermind was probably somewhere enjoying what for him was a political victory.  For policemen, police chiefs, inelligence agents from the military not to have anticipated a war party of 100 ruthless blood seeking hired killers to have escaped the attention of the police and the military is ridiculous.  Their level of  protection came from way up there, and these things will matter.  Wait and see.  If she acts the way she has been for the past few months, like issuing pardons to her friends who have committed crimes that merited their getting the released from death row /  some multiple life sentences.  It was a scadal that rocked Manila. It was also another tragedy that under her presidency, more journalists had been killed than at any other period except for WW II.  Likewise, the other days massacre of 57 that included 12 journalists was a massacre that again broke the record for the number of journalists killed in one day during peace time.   It is horrible, the way Arroyo has chosen to leave this matter to her assistants and keep relatively tight-lipped about the matter. Except for her declaring today a day of mourning, which is the strongest statement she has made about the entire matter, it seems.    Her “orders”  for a “quick” investigation, etc. are ridiculous, considering everyone knows who did it.   Statements like these only serve to make to entire matter more  laughable.  This is not a question of perhaps. The way she has been handling the massacre has shown us so clearly that we are not going to get much help from our own President, despite the fact that 57 Filipinos have been tortured, beheaded, shot down like dogs by 100 of her allies’ men.  He is worth too much for her in the next elections for her to pursue him and have the legal books thrown at them.  I cry for the families of the 57 murdered people.  My heart bleeds for my country, which is an example of what a powerful President can and cannot do.   It’s pathetic.  Let me bet you that Malacanang will put blame on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
It won’t be hard to imagine that some MILF joined in the massacre. But that is what mercenaries do, isn’t it?  It’s
a simple matter of fighting for the highest bidder. And in this case, the  Ampatuan clan possibly, very easily hired a few if not some MILF fighters for a thousand bucks a day, if not two, for a one day project.

See SkyBroadband Sloppy Final Installation of Modem.

Sky Broadband's Sloppy Job

Skybroadband installed this modem the other day. Isn’t it great how they managed to make my room look like a shanty in just one hour? Take note, this is NOT a temporary connection.  This is exactly how they left my room and the broadband’s modem. Smack down in the middle of the floor. After a full day of waiting and getting passed around from one customer support to tech support to billing to who knows who, they said they would try to send someone to fix this miss. I cannot move the modem as they left the cable with only enough length to be installed, like true pros, in the middle of the floor.   So I am on a waiting list for them to tidy up their job. This is totally sloppy quality. Unacceptable unless, of course, except to them alone. However, in case you are used to to the Lopez standards of quality  in everything they do. So, from falling entire windows at Rockwell million peso units to a botched simple job of another meter of cable, they leave their brand of quality work everywhere they go.

Shame on those who didn’t expect that riot at the ULTRA where Willie Revillame, the million bucks a day guy  asked people to come and get money, what else?  And woe to all of us, who expected justice be brought upon those responsible for that incident.
At any rate, here is a reminder for all future customers. Be sure you are home when they say their work is done. By the way, they also cut off my Destiny cable wiring to make room for their inability to find a way to wire up their broadband.  So more additional expenses for me all because their installers were too lazy to do a proper job of finding their way to my unit from the electrical room.  Jerks. Idiots. Don’t the owners think of what the people will say after work like this is left in their clients houses?  I asked the guy to fix this before leaving and they said they were getting some stuff and coming back. Well, phoey on me for believing their bull.
Bravo Sky!!!!

Time cannot be returned or borrowed. Alisin na yun kalokohan na palusot na “Pilipino Time kuno. Palusot lang yan sa kaswapangan, diba?

If someone takes up an hour or two by making you wait while they are late for a meeting/appointment, can they give you back their 60 or 120 minutes? People who are late are stealing your time, and unlike money, time cannot be paid back.  Huwag ninyo na sila kausapin hanaggat matuto silang gumalang sa inyong oras. So much for the introduction.  When the DOTC allows television stations to make us suffer through hours and hours as they illegally allow selfish TV stations to steal our time by extending a boxing bout to start in the morning and end at past five PM, what happens to the chores and or other appointments these Filipinos had to attend?  Hindi nila kaya isaulo ang oras mo, kahit anong gawin nila. At lahat ito para sang katutak ang kikitain nila. Pera lang parati and palit sa mga karapatan ng Pilipino.  Mula politico hanggang drug company hanggan telco,basta magulangan ang Pinoy masaya na sila. Basta kumita sila kahit na ninakaw ang oras ng Pilipino, ayos lang yan. Pera lang ang katapat naman parati. Ginagalang ba ng mga politiko and karapatan ng Pilipino? Mula Presidente hanngat pati baranggay ngayon ay kahihiya natin sa buong mundo. Pero wala naman tayong ginagawa para palitan o palayasan kita. Mas marami na ang magnanakaw ngayon kaysa panahon ni Marcos. Sige higit doble ka rami na sila. Bakit? Dahil walang umaangal, at ang Ombudsman ay hindi kumakampi sa Pilipino. Kung hindi marunong magpatakbo and DOTC ng responsibilidad nila, eh di umalis na sila at pinapatay lang nila ang mga kababayan natin.  Maraming batas ay hindi nila pinasin dahil sa pera. Mahiya sana sila. Umalis na sana sila at sila ay”vexations to the spirit”. Kung wala sila umalis at hindi naman nila kaya gawin ang trabaho nila, eh ano pa ang silbi nia na buhay? Sana isipin nila yun. Hindi lahat ng kaligayahan sa mundo ay galing sa pera.  Kung nila makuha iyan, mabuti pa magpakamatay siya.  Alam naman nila kung sino sila.  Tamaan sana kayo ng kidlat. Yan lang.

Access to ella’s blog here…

Please check out this blogsite.  It is the second put up as the first one was censored.   The story on the site will tell you.

All in all, a great scoop on how the government is treating the flood victims citizens.

http://gangbadoy.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/1M/1201

Please forward this link to fellow Filipinos so they can see how their leader is leading her cabinet during crisis.

Oh Lordy, Comelec’s Melo is a Melon!

The term MELON is used to describe cars or equipment that were bought but do not work as the buyers thought they would.  Instead of running in brand new condition, the MELON seems not to function as it is supposed to.  Everything appears to break down more often than not, and repeated runs to the shop cannot seem to correct it’s problematic performance.  There are some policies in the industry regarding real melons, the proper one being the supplier giving you a replacement brand new unit after admitting that they gave you a real Melon.

The relevance of my writing about melons is our very own Super Melon Comelec’s MELO.  Instead of his trying to understand and resolve the problems of people who want to register, especially for the first time, the Comelec, instead of helping the public, blames the people for waiting till today to register, for example.  And although it is apparent that many may be deprived of their RIGHT to vote, this Comelec  instead of finding a way to adjust the number of days for people to register, Melo gruffly and arrogantly berates the voters, old and new for being not able to register on time.  While all the while we thought we bought a new billion peso computerized voting system, (a doubtful purchase, for sure), this Commissioner seems to think that as election czar,   instead of SERVING the public, it is getting clear that Melo da Melon is instead trying, and obviously so, to not care whether Filipinos are DEPRIVED of their RIGHT to vote by using stupid reasons to blame them for the inability to register. People WANT to register. MELO da MELON, it seems, is trying to find ways to prevent Filipino voters from being given all the possible means to register. Why not extend registration a few more days? His answer, The people waited to register, so it’s their fault.  No, sir, Melon. There were just too many trying to register.  What’s up, Melon? Someone up there telling you to do a Garci but unlike Garci, he is sabotaging the elections this early by not making it possible for all qualified Filipinos to register so they can vote.  Melo, you will be labeled to be a Gloria-boy, another Garci, if you continue to NOT do what you can to allow the Filipino citizen register so that they can vote in the coming elections.  The Comelec workers I saw on TV news tonight had their daughters and nieces helping out to move the work of Comelec employees. Why don’t you ask the DepEd to send you more teachers, add more chairs, send more forms to help get more Filipinos registered.  This is a serious election Melo, and if I were you, I would think of how your fellow Filipino was not allowed to vote because YOU did NOT do what you could to facilitate registration. Instead of gruffly barking to the news correspondents that you are not moving the registration last day which you should try to do even if means moving heaven and earth.  If you can’t, then ask the Supreme Court to allow you to extend registration days but sir, please don’t cheat the Filipino out of his right to vote. You will go down in history as THAT Melon. The one and only who decided the fate of the elections months previous to that election day.  You know what your job is. Do it or suffer the wrath of Filipinos for generations to follow.  Believe me, Melon, we are really waiting for the chance to have a LEGAL President after so many years living under a pretender.