FORMER Comelec Commissioner Gus Lagman (FCGL), through a letter dated January 13, 2015, accepted the challenge of Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes (CSB) for FCGL to prove that internal tampering of election results can be done easily. CSB replied the following day by saying, “While the acceptance of my challenge is very much appreciated, I would like to note that it is unreasonable…to require in conducting such demonstration a technical person from Smartmatic…While we await the response of Smartmatic if they are amenable to your demands, I suggest that the proposed demonstration be conducted with your own programmer.”

Then on January 20, 2015, FCGL replied back to CSB stating, “I have always said that external hacking of the system does not worry me; but ‘internal tampering’ does. I have also said often enough that the system is vulnerable to tampering by an ‘insider.’ ”

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