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POLL BODY RAPPED FOR ‘HELLO, GARCIA’ IT experts hit Comelec for Smartmatic tampering By Christine F. Herrera
IT EXPERTS on Sunday accused the Commission on Elections of electoral sabotage for engaging the services of Marlon Garcia, the same Smartmatic project director who was embroiled in an election-related scandal in 2013, also for tampering with the transparency server.
Peace be with you. Vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. greets his fellow churchgoers at a mass at the Shrine of
Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Baclaran, Parañaque City on Sunday. Marcos was joined by his wife Liza, son Sandro, mother Imelda and other relatives and friends at the service. EY ACASIO
Rody not keen on pursuing VP Binay
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The Venezuelan technician admitted last week that he had introduced a script into the transparency server after voting had ended on May 9, but said it was just “a cosmetic change.” But IT expert and former Biliran Rep. Glenn Chong, a convener of AESWatch, vowed to revive his case against Garcia, the Comelec and other Smartmatic officials for “undermining the integrity” of elections. Chong, who ran but lost the 2013 congressional race, likened his case to independent vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr., whose one-million vote lead over Robredo vanished after a few hours after the script was introduced. Chong likened Garcia to former Comelec official Virgilio Garcillano, who was accused of electoral fraud during the Arroyo administration. Garcillano was made famous for the “Hello Garci” scandal when then President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo allegedly called him up and ordered him to take care of the administration candidates. In a complaint lodged with the Comelec and the Department of Justice, copies of which were obtained by Next page
Duterte spokesman slams leftist critics By John Paolo Bencito and Rio N. Araja THE camp of the president-in-waiting Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte slammed leftist groups Sunday for criticizing his eight-point economic program as “a continuation of the neoliberal poison imposed on the people by the Aquino regime” and accused
them of being “roadblocks to genuine change.” “Leftist groups have rejected the hands of friendship and cooperation by the incoming Duterte administration by mouthing their usual criticism of others but not undertaking their own criticism, self-criticism,” said Peter Laviña, Duterte’s spokesman, marking a break from the conciliatory
tone the mayor has taken toward the communists. “I am truly sorry for these leftist groups which will be left out in the march of history with their dogma and belligerent styles and methods of work. They need to right their wrongs and stop becoming roadblocks to genuine change,” Laviña said in his Facebook page. Next page