Massive ballot tampering found in Pampanga

May 18, 2011

ANGELES CITY — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has stopped opening contested ballots from four villages of this city after finding massive ballot spoiling.
The opening of ballots was made in relation to the protest filed by former mayor Francis “Blueboy” Nepomuceno against Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.
But the Comelec’s Second Division found out Monday morning massive tampering in the form of double shading or shading of both the names of Pamintuan and Nepomuceno, which resulted in ballot spoilage.
The poll body started Monday the manual recount of mayoral votes in this city involving ballot boxes from 37 priority precincts out of the 185 contested precincts.
The priority precincts were identified by the Nepomuceno camp as to where cheating took place.
Pamintuan gathered 60,562 votes, while Nepomuceno got 34,105 votes during the May 2010 mayoral race.
Nepomuceno’s ballots unspoiled
In a press conference, Pamintuan alleged that only ballots with Nepomuceno’s name were not spoiled.
Nepomuceno filed an electoral protest against Pamintuan within the 10-day protest period allotted by the Comelec after the 2010 elections.
The former mayor’s camp filed the protest following alleged vote-buying and illegal dealings that resulted in Pamintuan’s win.
According to Nepomuceno’s camp, illegal dealings placed identifying marks, words and expressions in ballots that the precinct counter optical scan (PCOS) machine scanned and counted in favor of Pamintuan.
However, Pamintuan said there is a possibility that the Nepomuceno’s camp did the cheating.
“They were still in power 46 days after the elections, meaning all the ballot boxes were in their custody. They were also the ones who identified the supposed questionable precincts — the precincts which they may have tampered with,” Pamintuan said. “The cheating happened after the elections and the cheating was against me.”
Checking of CFC
Comelec Second Division chair Lucenito Tagle has suggested checking on the election results reflected on the compact flash cards (CFCs) used by the PCOS machines.
However, Nepomuceno’s camp objected to the opening of the CFCs that also contain image of the original ballots during the elections.
Moreover, it was alleged that the PCOS machines were “pre-programmed” to count votes for Pamintuan.
But for Pamintuan, this accusation is impossible.
“This is a charge that is technically impossible. It is a charge that actually questions the entire automated elections, which were otherwise hailed as the most efficient system used so far, resulting in the speediest and most peaceful Philippine elections ever,” Pamintuan said.
Aside from questioning the electoral system, Pamintuan said Nepomuceno’s camp is also questioning the entire results of the 2010 national elections, including the election of President Benigno Aquino III and all candidates who won in the elections.
“I am urging the Comelec to dig deeper in order to unravel this sinister operations and more importantly, expose and persecute the cheats. My camp is not afraid to go through the process. In fact, we want to complete the process (of the whole recount),” Pamintuan said. (Sun.Star Pampanga/Sunnex)

Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2011/05/16/massive-ballot-tampering-found-pampanga-155842

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