Did Namfrel discover potential tampering in the Comelec vote counting machine? (Sabong News)
Author
Wilson Chua
Date
APRIL 24 2022
NAMFREL’s Lito Averia couldn’t believe his eyes. Working into the early hours of the morning and fueled by massive amounts of coffee, Lito found a mismatch in the hashcodes of Comelec’s Vote Counting Machines (VCM).
This 64-character hashcode proves that the system code inside the VCMs was never altered. This hashcode acts much like a security seal, and if the seal is broken, there is a prima facie case for tampering. In other words, if the system code of Comelec’s Vote Counting machine were in any way changed, the hash code would be DIFFERENT. This is the original hashcode as published by Comelec:
So this “b” and “8” character difference raises the presumption that the system code WAS tampered with. Comelec’s reaction was to issue a certification here, saying there was a typo, and it even had an attachment from their vendor Pro V&V supporting this position.
Reactions from netizens:
Call to Action:
Hanlon’s Razor comes to mind to explain this typo: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Still COMELEC could do more to allay the fears. NAMFREL calls on Comelec to re-run the compilation. The public needs to witness the output hashcode. This step was never done in the previous audits.
Background and full disclosure:
I stumbled upon this while interviewing Fernando Contreras Jr (Namfrel) to get their reactions to UP Vanguards’ 4-point recommendations to Comelec. Namfrel and BNSHosting.net (which this author manages) have commercial transactions.
