Smartmatic strikes again! In 2008, while votes were being consolidated in the regional elections at the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Smartmatic, remotely from Manila, changed the number of voters in a counting and consolidation server in Wao, Lanao del Sur. In 2010, during the canvass of votes for the President and Vice President in Congress, the canvassing and consolidation system showed 256 million registered voters which Smartmatic corrected, admitting a programming error. In 2013, within the first two hours of voting, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) announced that it had counted 12 million votes, an improbable number. Smartmatic made a correction to the program in the transparency server, revealing in the process an intermediary server, the function of which nobody knows.
The recent “ñ” affair is Smartmatic’s fourth incursion into the automated election system (AES) while in a state of live operations.
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