Pres. Duterte had more votes than reported
SHOOTING STRAIGHT - Bobit S. Avila (The Philippine Star) - May 17, 2018 - 12:00am
I read a rather disturbing news report from Manila Bulletin that blared, “PET revisors stumble on votes cast for Duterte but not counted for him.” Let me quote a portion of this report which reads, “On condition of anonymity, the revisors said they discovered “many of these incidents” but they did not pay so much attention because their concern is the result of their manual recount and revision of ballots in the vice-presidential protest.”
We know well enough that thanks to the billions in taxpayers money that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) spent for the Automated Election Law through Smartmatic, there is a huge problem that proves to the Filipino voter that the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) or the Optical Mark Reader machines have not really given the nation a clean and honest elections. Why then is there an issue that the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) is handling today? If the PCOS machines cannot be manipulated, then we would already have a clear winner in the vice-presidential race for elections 2016.
We understand that the PET is not looking into the results of the Presidential race, but this news tells us what we’ve long suspected…that Pres. Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte should have won a higher number of votes than what the Comelec said that Duterte bagged 16,601,997 votes or 6.6 million more votes than second placer Manuel “Mar” Roxas. That Mar Roxas went from last place to second place is a mystery in itself, which the departed former Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista ought to explain to the Filipino people. But the question is, does Pres. Duterte care to get into the bottom of this mess? I certainly hope so.
Mind you, this report renews the question that’s been bugging many pundits… as to why did Senator Franklin Drilon and Sen. Villanueva had 18 million more votes than the most popular candidate in the 2016 elections, which is Pres. Duterte? Now it can be told that with this news report being uncovered by the PET… that Pres. Duterte really had more votes than what the Comelec officially reported to the Filipino people.
Last Monday we just held the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, but the Comelec didn’t use the PCOS or the Optical Mark Reader machines because there was no need to transmit the results of the elections to the central office because the people within the Barangays know that their candidates won or lost their candidacies.