Charles Teves
TV host, radio broadcaster, and columnist Ramon Tulfo, brother of Senator Raffy Tulfo, is making waves with his criticism of some officials from the Commission on Elections (Comelec), who he claims own luxury vehicles.
Tulfo questions how they could afford expensive cars like a Lexus.
“Maraming opisyal ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang nagmamaneho o nagmamay-ari ng Lexus o ibang luxury cars or SUVs,” he wrote in a March 28 Facebook post.
“Saan nila ninakaw, este, kinuha yung perang pinambili nila ng mga mamahaling kotse o SUV?” he added.
Tulfo hasn’t mentioned any names but pointed out that the 2022 elections have just ended.
“Teka. Katatapos lang ng 2022 national elections. Ah….alam na natin,” he concluded.
There’s a good number of Filipinos who believe that the elections were rigged.
The poll watchdog, Namfrel, has exposed software issues in the automated election system used in the 2022 elections. Despite being warned about cheating, the Comelec ignored concerns.
This has led retired General Eliseo Rio to conclude that the presidency and vice presidency race was rigged. In response, a retired Colonel is preparing to file impeachment charges against five poll commissioners for their refusal to present records, as the Supreme Court deadline for Comelec to justify their actions has already passed.
Namfrel has made its 89-page Final Report on the 2022 National-Local Elections available on its website.
The report highlights discrepancies found by the organization, including differences between the vote counting machine’s (VCM) source code and its hash code, which suggests tampering with the program.
Rio has doubted the legitimacy of the 20 million votes received in the last hour of the 2022 election. These votes were for presidential and vice presidential candidates. It states that it would be impossible to achieve.
As an electronic communication engineer, he explained that there were nine steps that the Comelec had to complete with the 107,345 precincts before transmitting the vote count from the Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) to the Transparency Server.
He estimated that this process would have taken more than 30 minutes. The longest step was printing eight copies of all the candidates’ votes for the VCMs. This included those for president, vice president, senator, party list, congressman, and local positions.
Rio previously served as the Secretary of Information-Communication Technology and the chairman of the Comelec Advisory Committee for the 2019 election.
For 65 years, Namfrel has handled voter education, election monitoring, and quick counts. It is also responsible for an automatic manual audit of election results in 2022. It was one of several organizations that reviewed Comelec’s election preparations for 2022. The human-readable source code is a collection of instructions written by programmers for the VCMs, whereas the hash code is the software’s unique computer-generated fingerprint.
