And You Believe Them . . .

"Sons of bitches!!!"

No I'm not calling you that . . . it's what Makati Representative Teodoro Locsin said about Smartmatic's officials and about the company itself.

Locsin was angry and unsatisfied with Smartmatic officials’ explanation on why the election results transmitted by the voting machines had different time stamps that did not reflect the actual opening and closing times of the polls.

As stated in the Inquirer this is what Locsin said:

“You sons of bitches! You had us standing here guaranteeing to the public and to the world that even if fraud was committed, we would be able to trace it."

“We never said that fraud could not be committed, but you said that we could trace it, and now you tell me, that at 10 in the evening you [referring to hackers] could do it and we would never know."

Way to go congressman, that's giving them hell.

I'm not happy with Smartmatic's explanation either.

Heider Garcia, Smartmatic electoral systems manager, explained that the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines were stand-alone machines and reflected the time configured into their internal clocks before they left the warehouse.

Supposedly the time stamp was there to show the timetable of events that happened on each individual machines.

Garcia added that since the PCOS machines were not synchronized some may not have had their internal clocks corrected.

Why not?

Why were the internal clocks on the machines not set to our local standard time.

The time stamp was put there for a reason and so shouldn't it make sense that they should all be running on local time?

The Comelec came to the defense of Smartmatic with Comelec Chair Jose Melo saying that these may just be isolated cases and that it was not done deliberately by Smartmatic.

No sir Mr. Melo. If Smartmatic did not change the internal clocks then they deliberately did it - screw up the timestamps. There is a big difference between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. - by about 3 hours.

And the statement that only the losers would be complaining . . .

. . . well DUH.

Of course only the losers would complain.

I ask you, have you ever seen any winners complain about cheating or fraud?

I don't think so.

And so what if it was the losers complaining? Does it make their complain less valid? Less important?

Check the allegations out.

Or are our politicians too afraid to uncover anything that will put them in a bad light?

That being the case I would not be surprised.

Then this will just fade away as nothing more than rumor and the man who became "Koala Bear" would probably not live it down - forced to wear that ridiculous get-up with nothing to show for it.

Ah that's showbiz for you.