Would cheating be that easy in the recent election?

[digitalron]

+1^

I think a lot of the losing candidates are simply riding on the cheating bandwagon. Tsk, tsk, tsk. I wonder if those bozos will ever grow up... Poor us.

It's also not too far-fetched to speculate that these losing candidates know they really didn't win but are simply hoping that:

1. A failure of elections is called which will give them a another chance should another round of election be called

2. The proclamation of the winner will be delayed significantly (talangka mentality at play -- if I can't win, make it difficult for the winner to get proclaimed)

Geez... we may not agree on which candidates should win, but now that winners have been proclaimed, let's get on with life!!!

[CVT]

Nako nagsisilabasan na mga talunan saying they were offered the ability to cheat (as usual without names)... Question to them is WHY expose this NOW when the elections is done? Why not before the elections? Pustahan tayo kung nanalo sila these expose would not come to life. Our election process is now automated but our political system is still very old school. Basta natalo, NADAYA! or may anomalies... As usual the winners are silent!

Sanay siguro ang mga kum*g na politikong iyan sa basketbolan sa barangay......:hysterical:

9909:gotcha:

[niwde11]

wala namang natatalo sa election sa pinas eh.:D
Nadaya lang lagi.

[shadow]

yun mga talunan na nagsabi na meron nag offer sa kanila to cheat during the election ang dapat hulihin!

first clearly what was offered to them was illegal and they are official of the land at least for the incumbent who were up for reelections, secondly sinasabi nila na gusto nila ng "malinis" na election kaya hinde nila exposed ngayon eh dapat right there and then when it was offered to them pinahuli na nila. mga plastik!!!

[lancy09]

I don't think they can hack this PCOS. Otherwise, they are also good in hacking bank website which they can get or transfer money from somebody.

[leonleon]

Credit cards can only be hacked after being scanned in-person. The love bug? It's easy to create a virus that does nothing but destroy data... but to manipulate encrypted data? That's a feat of a different magnitude.

To systematically change the data coming from all the stations would require the cheaters to either control the PCOS machines themselves or control the servers.

Otherwise, they'd have to control all the personnel at all the stations, which they can't.

+1.

It would have been a SUPER GRAND conspiracy between Comelec and SMARTMATIC personnel for cheating, as the KOALA boys/bears describe it, to work.

[leonleon]

first clearly what was offered to them was illegal and they are official of the land at least for the incumbent who were up for reelections, secondly sinasabi nila na gusto nila ng "malinis" na election kaya hinde nila exposed ngayon eh dapat right there and then when it was offered to them pinahuli na nila. mga plastik!!!

Agree! 1 million percent!!

It really begs the question why those "honorable" lawmakers chose not to report alleged illegal activities when it was "transpiring".

[claRkEnt]

at si baklang Morato, pumapapel pa... as if he is credible enough.

[chua_riwap]

At saka yung "mga inalok" DAW na candidates, ng mga pre-programmed CFCs months before the May 10 elections, ngayon lang sila nagsilabas. Dapat noon pa nila nireklamo yan, na may mga ganyang tao.

Mga talunan kasi.......

[lancy09]

cguro kung pera pera lang pala, eh di sana inalok nila si Manny Villar. Sya yata ang pinakamayaman sa kanilang lahat. Kwentong barbero lang ata ang kwento ng mga talunan.

[pup2]

So far, not a SHRED of hard evidence. But how pleasing to note most tsikoteers have more common sense than very many trapos ...

[Rleo6965]

Nagtataka ako sa mga looser politician na ito. Alam na pala nila na may "dayaan" at di lang nila ma afford yun price. Eh bakit di nila ni-report ito. Kasi masasayang yung nagastos pera , pagod at oras sa "campaign" pag yun kalaban nya pumatol sa "cheating" na ito. Nonsense talaga kung maniniwala tayo sa mga report ng mga talunan na politicians.

[uls]

dudes, obvious naman they're just making things up

they lost and they're bitter

they'll do everything they can to make life difficult for the victors

after the election campaign, the losers are now on a scorched earth campaign

they don't care if they wreck the country in the process

no such thing as greater good for those people

they wanna disrupt, discredit, destroy

human nature dudes

[shadow]

cguro kung pera pera lang pala, eh di sana inalok nila si Manny Villar. Sya yata ang pinakamayaman sa kanilang lahat. Kwentong barbero lang ata ang kwento ng mga talunan.

agree!!! Villar should have been the clear winner, kung meron pwedeng bayaran para manalo.

[Galactus]

Credit cards can only be hacked after being scanned in-person. The love bug? It's easy to create a virus that does nothing but destroy data... but to manipulate encrypted data? That's a feat of a different magnitude.

To systematically change the data coming from all the stations would require the cheaters to either control the PCOS machines themselves or control the servers.

Otherwise, they'd have to control all the personnel at all the stations, which they can't.

Credit cards can be hacked online (actually, just the card numbers). There are a lot of investigative stories about it on Dateline and similar TV shows. The card doesn't even have to be physically present for it to be hacked.

But special scanning devices or skimmers do exist to lift information off a credit card.

BTT: It's hard to manipulate the election results or manipulate the software without knowing the source code, and compiling/decompiling it. I used to be an amateur programmer, (Turbo Pascual and Basic...yeah, its that old!), and if the cheaters don't know how the election software works or the way it was written, they can't do jack.

[JackFlash]

I think we all agree that digital cheating would be very hard to do. But the one thing that still needs to be addressed is retail cheating - at the local level where vote buying becomes the only means to ensure a victory, especially in the depressed provinces or outlying communities. Kaya yung ibang trapo, gusto maraming mahihirap - people who think only of their day-to-day existence so that even P100 will be enough for them to trade in their future in exchange for a day's meal.

Time for this gov't to live up to its promise: Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap. Then when people choose to vote according to conscience and not their stomach, we'll see real public servants who'll be judged on the basis of their relational rather than transactional leadership.

Of course yung mga talo will continue to crawl out of the woodwork to claim they were cheated. But maybe by that time, elections would have been so foolproof, complainers will appear like fools. Praying for a better tomorrow. Sana dumating na.

[bongski214]

dudes, obvious naman they're just making things up

they lost and they're bitter

they'll do everything they can to make life difficult for the victors

after the election campaign, the losers are now on a scorched earth campaign

they don't care if they wreck the country in the process

no such thing as greater good for those people

they wanna disrupt, discredit, destroy

human nature dudes

sad but so true, they should take a lesson from Al Gore, won the popular votes (but nabitin sa electoral votes) against Bush, he conceded to avoid a constitutional crisis, kung dito yun nangyari they'll be happy to see the country in ashes rather than admit losing.