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committing the same mistake for the third time. But he could have considered the January 2004 decision of the Supreme Court about the use of the automated counting The SC stopped the automation of the 2004 elections as the petitioners appealed that the ACMs did not meet Comelec’s technical implementation requirements. So Comelec reverted to manual elections in 2004 and they were ready then as part of their contingency plan.
Unfortunately, the joint congressional oversight committee this critical point of the project. The JCOC did not intervene and had not checked on what the Comelec had been doing.
Though not compliant with the law already, Brillantes, together with Smartmatic and Dominion, He presented a CD containing the source code and announced that its review may be started. Huh! Impossible! How can you do the source code review in four days? It should take at least six months Comelec should have started Au testing and sealing. How can you source code review failed? Would Brillantes do the same as what former Chairman Melo did when cards a week before the 2010 elections due to inaccurate counting of was fooling us Filipinos that the Smartmatic’s AES was suitable for use in our elections by just showing the CD. He was like a clown performing a magic disappearing act in a kiddie party. AES Watch said then that it was too late, but Brillantes insisted that it was the best that the Comelec could do given the situation. It appears that he was playing innocent about the law but “ignorance of the law excuses no one.”
Senatorial bet Richard Gordon defer the elections due to the absence of a source code review. But the 2010 elections, Comelec did was no source code review; the election results were not digitally - dit trail or voter’s receipt; and, the success rate of transmitting percent, much lesser than the 90 percent of 2010. What happened million votes, that were not transmitted? Worst, the election results for the rest!