Smartmatic attributes it to “computation mistake”, thus:

“An official of Smartmatic, one-half of the consortium that automated this year’s elections, on Thursday said computation mistake was the reason why the number of registered voters in the canvassing of votes was excessively higher than in the official Commission on Elections (Comelec) record… In a chance interview with reporters, Smartmatic-Asia president Cesar Flores said the computer added the number of registered voters coming from three servers, in the process also multiplying the number of voters by three.” (from GMANews.tv)

Now, let us do the simple arithmetic ourselves based on the above explanation and data found in Comelec website and in the news item itself:

Server
Registered voters: 50,723,734
Overseas voters: 589,830
Total 51,313,564

Multiplying by 3:

Grand total: 153,940,692
Smarmatec Total: 153,902,003
Difference: 38,689

Our total does not equal the total of Smartmatic and this could be because the exact figures for the a) total local registered voters and b) the total overseas voters used may be different.

Nevertheless, note that if the explanation of the Smartmatic official for the computation mistake is correct, then the Smartmatic magic number of 153,902,003 should be multiples of 3 or exactly divisible by 3, which it is not.

When one admits of “computation mistake” in a 7+ billion-peso high-tech project that is supposed to count each vote correctly and do additions correctly in several levels, computation mistake is a serious thing to worry about.

Let us remember that the AES that made this “computation mistake” was designed to do the following computations with a very high level of reliability:

1. adding the total votes of candidates in 14 positions in each clustered precinct to get the total votes in a municipality
2. then adding the total votes from the municipalities and cities to get the total votes of each province
3. then adding the total votes from the provinces to get the total votes for the country

Remember that there are:

76,340 clustered precincts
14 positions in
4 levels (national, provincial, municipal, city) with
about 48,000 candidates

If a programming error can result in computation mistake in the simple task of displaying the total registered voters, is it not also possible that some programming errors with resulting computation mistakes did occur in the other computational routines?

This issue has to be addressed to clear all doubts and because we have another elections coming in 3 years.

Aklat ng Bayan, Inc. held a book launching of  Volumes 1 and 2 in a 4-volume series of the selected writings of Jose Ma. Sison from 1991 to 2008 on February 19, 2009 at the Isabelo de los Reyes Auditorium, School of Labor and Industrial Relations) Bonifacio Hall, UP Diliman.

■ Click here for photos, video and text of the launching by  Aklat ng Bayan of volumes I and II of the Selected Writings of Jose Ma. Sison (1991-2009), UP Diliman campus, Feb. 19, 2009

It will be recalled that Marcos started the construction of the plant in 1976 and completed it in 1984. But the Cory administration did not see it fit to operate it although it continued to pay the bill, which totalled $2.3 billion when finally paid up in 2997.

For photos and various articles on the BNPP, go to

Morong, Bataan – Rushing to reopen the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Jan. 22, 2009o

For photos and statements, go to the Arkibong Bayan website.

So we present here a video clip from the 1976 film SAKADA by Behn Cervantes. We like this clip because it conveys well the message that all of us already know: that poverty in this country is an example of the wrong application of the mathematics of division to the distribution of wealth produced by the workers and the farmers.

Click here for the link to the video clip

Click here for the page of the above photo

To see the photos at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, please visit this link:

http://www.arkibongbayan.org/2008-08Aug10-tanada110th/tanada110th.htm

LPGas-driven ang naflagged down namin na taxi at binibida nga ng driver
na mas mura ang gastos niya. Nagpakarga siya sa LGP-gas station sa
Visayas ng 10 litro,  P31.33 per liter. Mga
kalahati ito ng gastos kung gasoline o diesel.

Nang tumatakbo na, tinanong ko siya kung ilang litro sa isang araw ang gamit niya. 40 litro daw. Kaya mga 1,200 pesos. Mga 8-10 km bawat litro.

Tinanong ko kung magkano ang VAT na binayad niya. Sagot ay 12%. Nag
mental arithmetic at dinagdag na mga P140 pala ang binibigay niiya sa
gobyerno bilang VAT.

Sa isang buwan, magkano yun?, tanong ko. Sagot niya:”Aba, mga apat na
libo din yun!” at medyo napamura pa. Laki daw pala ang nakakaltas sa
kanya ng @#$%^& gobyerno ni Gloria.

Eh, baka uminit pa ang ulo at mabangga kami, binalita ko na may mga
grupo at mga congressmen naman ang gumagawa ng mga paraan para maalis
ang VAT sa oil na bago 2006 ay wala naman noon. Pwede rin siyang sumali
sa PISTON para makasama siya sa mga pagkilos nito laban sa VAT.

Nang medyo ayos na, tinanong ko uli kung magkano naman ang bayad niya sa kuryente…..at umandar ang usapan tulad ng sa LPGas.

Powerful talaga ang science of mathematics sa pagunawa sa mga isyu.
Subukan ninyo next time na mag-jeep o taxi kayo pero imoderate lang
ninyo at baka mabangga kayo

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