{"id":38239,"date":"2015-01-11T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38239"},"modified":"2025-01-09T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:54:10","slug":"brillantes-invites-lagman-to-prove-pcos-results-can-be-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/11\/brillantes-invites-lagman-to-prove-pcos-results-can-be-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"Brillantes invites Lagman to prove PCOS results can be altered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25027\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sixto-Brillantes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" class=\"wp-image-25027 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sixto-Brillantes-e1420988101207-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. (left) presents the proposed Comelec Budget for 2015 during the House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday (Sept.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sixto-Brillantes-e1420988101207-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sixto-Brillantes-e1420988101207-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy robaxin online <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html\">newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> 4, 2014) at the House of Representatives in Batasan Hills, Quezon City. In right photo is Palawan 3rd District Rep. Douglas S. Hagedorn. (PNA photos by Gil S. Calinga)&#8221; width=&#8221;604&#8243; height=&#8221;422&#8243; \/><\/a> Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. (left) presents the proposed Comelec Budget for 2015 during the House Appropriations Committee hearing on Thursday (Sept. 4, 2014) at the House of Representatives in Batasan Hills, Quezon City. In right photo is Palawan 3rd District Rep. Douglas S. Hagedorn. (PNA photos by Gil S. Calinga)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked former poll commissioner Gus Lagman to prove his claims that the results of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines can be altered.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said he has sent a letter to his former colleague to sit down with the commission en banc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, it is your duty as former Comelec commissioner that you should inform us on how it can be easily tampered. <em>Turuan niya kami &#8216;kako para mapag-preparahan namin yan<\/em>\u00a0(teach us, I said, so we can prepare) for 2016 since we will be using the same machines. So we invited him <em>na pumunta siya dito at pakita mo sa amin yan<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes noted that Lagman did not mentioned this issue during his stint at the Comelec.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy wegovy online <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wegovy.html\">newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/wegovy.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was in the Comelec for 10 months. He never said this. He never mentioned PCOS machines being rigged, which could be easily rigged, that is the adjective there. He did say you can probably manipulate it but not easily.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy kamagra gold online <a href=\"https:\/\/newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html\">newleafcounselinggroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/kamagra-gold.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Now he is saying it is very easy and I dare him to show it to us,\u201d the poll body chief added.<\/p>\n<p>With this, Brillantes said if Lagman failed to prove his claims, he asked the latter to stop criticizing the office, he was once part of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Hindi ko naman siya ide-demanda pero sasabihin ko lang na huwag ka na magsasalita kung hindi naman pala totoo sinasabi mo<\/em>\u00a0(I&#8217;m not going to sue him, but I will tell him to avoid talking if what he&#8217;s going to say isn&#8217;t true),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lagman was not re-appointed by President Aquino to the post in March 2012. He has since joined poll watchdog groups in opposing the use of voting machines.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Lagman said he is ready to prove that the PCOS machines can be tampered easily.<\/p>\n<p>But, he requested that a programmer of Smartmatic-TIM should also be there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI accept the challenge on the condition <em>na magpapunta din ng<\/em>\u00a0(to dispatch a) Smartmatic programmer <em>na marunong<\/em>\u00a0(who knows how to)<em>\u00a0mag-<\/em>modify<em> ng<\/em> PCOS computer program <em>kasi sinasabi ko naman na ang <\/em> (because what I&#8217;m talking about is the)\u00a0danger<em> ay <\/em>(of)\u00a0 internal tampering,\u201d Lagman added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked former poll commissioner Gus Lagman to prove his claims that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281880,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239\/revisions\/281880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}