Alleged Election Fraud Compared By Atty. Glenn Chiong To A Convent Virgin Bearing A Child
Atty. Glenn Chiong reacts on the alleged election fraud regarding manipulated SD cards, comparing it to a ‘convent virgin bearing a child’.
The lawyer refers to the 1, 356 contingent or extra VMCs stripped by Comelec last October 2016 so it can be returned to Smartmatic. The contingent VCMs were never been used because they were only stored at the warehouse in Laguna, according to the Comelec.
Each contingent VCMs has one extra blank SD card but this card was not necessary anymore because it can be used in cheating, based on the protocol of Comelec. There were 1, 356 unused contingent VCMs, so there must also be 1, 356 extra blank SD cards.
Comelec stripped the SD cards but during their stripping, 127 SD cards in 127 VCMs were found containing corrupted data. The lawyer suspected that a miracle happened during the last election because the SD cards should still be blank if the unused machines only stayed in the warehouse.
127 suspected SD cards were scheduled to be decrypted by the Comelec, three months after the discovery. 93 out of the 127 SD cards was ordered to be preserved during the Senate Electoral Tribunal in Tolentino vs De Lima.
26 of the suspected cards were already decrypted, 13 SD cards were blank but the other 13 were found containing data. The suspected SD cards were still containing data but 3 months later it was already blank.
One out of the 13 suspected SD cards contains a Serial Number BUF0631C, which is obviously tampered. Smartmatic’s representative explained that they’re only using Linux operating system in formatting SD cards but the SD card shows an evidence that it was accessed via Windows operating system.
The Smartmatic’s election system is open to sabotage and cheating, according to Comelec, when the decryption script or tool refused to recognize the tampered SD card. Decryption is the process of getting the encoded date and converting it into text and read by the computer,
Chong explained that the election was clearly sabotaged. The lawyer also compared it to a convent woman claiming to be a virgin but already bearing a child.