background: Here, votes are counted by teachers.
So today's headline is that teachers are asking that the Smartmatic machines not be used in Philippine elections.
DepEd union calls for removal of Smartmatic from PH elections process https://t.co/iSIKwIoG1s
— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) August 15, 2024
PhilInquirer notes:
“Past experiences with Smartmatic’s VCMs have raised significant concerns, particularly during the 2022 elections where over 1,800 machines malfunctioned, affecting approximately 1.1 million voters. These issues not only caused delays but also undermined public confidence in the electoral process,” DTU added.
the Philippine problems has resulted in the company's executives are being indicted for bribery.
hmmm... wonder why this story is not in the news section of the LATimes but under their entertainment section:
latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-09/executives-at-voting-machine-company-suing-fox-news-are-indicted
why is this important to you guys in the USA? Well, remember all those lawsuits against reports that they were causing fraud in the US presidential elections?
A federal grand jury in Miami has charged the co-founder of Smartmatic, a voting machine maker that is separately suing Fox News for defamation, with paying $1 million in bribe payments to officials in the Philippines. The indictment announced Thursday by the Justice Department said Smartmatic President Roger Piñate and two other employees allegedly made illegal payments to a former Philippines elections commissioner in order to get its voting machines and services used in the country’s 2016 election. The department said the payments were funded by a slush fund the executives created by inflating the cost of the voting machines. The money was allegedly laundered through bank accounts in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
Voting software company sues Newsmax and OAN over false election reporting Nov. 3, 2021 Piñate, a Venezuelan citizen, Smartmatic executive Jorge Vasquez and former executive Elie Moreno are each charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids corporate bribery abroad. Boca Raton, Fla.-based Smartmatic is currently waging defamation suits against Fox News and its smaller competitor Newsmax. The company said the conservative networks aired false statements about its machines being used to commit voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, charges that were pushed by former President Trump and his allies.
oh, if Trumpieboy claimed something, it can't be true, so unlike our intrepid reporters here in the Philippines, no one bothered to look into the claims.
but the company is claiming the problem machines weren't in the areas where the fraudulent voting occurred. So there.
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