Nacionalista-Makabayan senatorial candidate Liza Maza expressed deep concern over the recent reports that Smartmatic-TIM (May 2010 automated elections provider) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have turned off the UV ink reader, one of the five security features, on all 82,200 precinct court optical scan (PCOS) machines.
“The UV ink reader is one the most important security features of the PCOS machines as it ensures the authenticity of the ballots. The Comelec's decision to turn it off triples the chances for election fraud to occur in May,” Maza said.
“It looks as if the Comelec deliberately kept this from the public. The Commission has known from tests results in January that there is a problem in the UV ink reader feature of the PCOS machine, but it did not inform the public, nor did it try to immediately fix the defects. With the elections only a few weeks away, the Comelec could not anymore conduct thorough research to find the most effective remedy to this problem," Maza said.
In replacement to the built-in UV ink reader, Comelec and Smartmatic-TIM plans to purchase 76,000 portable UV ink readers for the use of Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) on May 10.
“This puts us in a lose-lose situation: If the Comelec does not purchase portable UV ink readers, we could be facing a possibly fatal breach in security in May. If it does, this could be another source of corruption,” Maza said.
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