Concert for kidney patient / Election blues / Law for human rights defenders

BEHIND THE SCENES

Alfred P. Dizon

BAGUIO CITY – First, a plug. A concert for a cause will be held at Gold Bar Music Lounge here (beside Rizal Park) on June 9 from 8 p.m. to 12 midnight. Performers will be home-grown talents.

Proceeds will be for medication of Hilda Pinos-an Sagudin of Mainit, Bontoc, Mountain Province and Kias, Baguio City.

Hilda who is suffering from chronic kidney disease.

We urge kind-hearted souls to buy tickets for the concert for this cause. Please contact Bakakeng barangay captain Evelyn Pit-og Balisong for tickets. Her number is 09984837708.   

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It is almost a month now since the May 13 elections and some candidates who lost are saying they have this gut feeling they could have been victims of lousy Smartmatic technology, particularly those who lost due to small margins.

In the case of Kalinga, outgoing Vice Gov. James S. Edduba Edduba ran for governor but lost to Tabuk City outgoing mayor Ferdinand B. Tubban who ran for the same post by 10 votes.

Edduba is not saying he is questioning results, but Kalinga folks said they respect him for being a gentleman for not doing so.

There were a lot of close fights in Northern Luzon and parts of the country. But then, it is not easy to question how the machines performed considering Commission on Elections officials are saying Smartmatic did a good job despite glitches like machines bogging down.   

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Call it politics, but the camp of former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday lashed at Vice President Leni Robredo for opposing the call of President Rodrigo Duterte for the Comelec to dump technology provider Smartmatic and instead look for a new one not tainted with involvement in electoral fraud.

Marcos’ lawyer and spokesperson Vic Rodriguez also criticized Robredo and Comelec spokesman James Jimenez for defending Smartmatic, despite numerous complaints against the Venezuelan technology provider, particularly the efficiency of its vote counting machines where several hundreds of its VCMs malfunctioned during the canvassing of votes for the May 13 midterm elections.

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The vice president urged the Comelec last week to exercise caution on the proposal of President Duterte to terminate its partnership with Smartmatic.

According to her, the Comelec should be allowed to explain before politicians make sweeping allegation of election fraud in the May 13 national elections.

“We should not say just because our candidates lost, they were cheated. Let them explain the matter to us first. If the explanation is acceptable, that would be it. If it is not acceptable to us, that’s the time we complain. But we should be calm,” Robredo said.

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The Marcos camp said Robredo’s opposition to the dismantling of the Comelec-Smartmatic partnership was disrespect to the sentiments of Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo and San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza who both supported President Duterte’s call for the Comelec to dump Smartmatic in favor of what they described as “hybrid election” where manual count will be conducted at precinct level to address the issue of “lack of transparency” arising from the use of Smartmatic’s VCMs.

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Last week, the President urged the Comelec to end its partnership with Smartmatic following widespread complaints about its efficiency and capability to maintain the integrity of the elections in the country.

The President said numerous complaints and allegations of electoral fraud in midterm elections created a ‘hostile attitude’ towards Smartmatic.

“I would like to advise the Comelec, now, I wouldn’t wait anymore, dispose of Smartmatic and look for a new one that is free of fraud,” Duterte said.

Marcos has a pending electoral protest against Robredo before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal seeking to nullify her proclamation as the duly elected vice president in the 2016 elections due to allegation of widespread election irregularities. 

The Marcos-Robredo electoral controversy is just one among the many that arose due to controversial election results processed by Smartmatic machines.

This could be a repeat scenario come election time after three years if the Smartmatic question is not addressed. Indeed, why is there no full-blown investigation on the capability of Sanrtmatic to deliver accurate election results and what is holding back the Comelec from letting go of the Venezuelan firm?

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While this is the case, the call for “hybrid” elections wherein counting is done at the precinct level may be sensible after all. This, considering Smartmatic took out the thrill of counting votes in precincts with its supposedly state of the art technology gone haywire.  

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The House of Representatives on Monday approved on third and final reading the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill which prevents human rights violations and abuses perpetrated against human rights defenders (HRDs).  

Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman welcomed the bill’s passage, noting that Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of Human Rights has recorded the killing of 697 human rights defenders in the country for the period 2001 to 2018, while Task Force Detainees of the Philippines documented 76 human rights violations affecting 333 HRDs from September 2013 to September 2016 alone.

House Bill 9199 consolidated HB 8128 authored by Lagman; and HB 1617 introduced by Representatives Carlos Isagani Zarate, Antonio Tinio, Emmi de Jesus, France Castro, Arlene Brosas, and of Makabayan Bloc.

The bill guarantees HRD rights and freedoms; mandates the State and public authorities to respect, protect, and fulfill these rights and freedoms; and imposes appropriate sanctions to counter impunity. 

Once enacted, the bill will also create a Human Rights Defenders Protection Committee chaired by a Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and six members who will be jointly nominated by concerned civil society organizations. 

HB 9199 is based on the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and the Model National Law on the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights Defenders drafted by the International Service for Human Rights.

Lagman, who sponsored the bill on second reading last week, lauded the House of Representatives for approving the measure on third and final reading.

 “It is high time that we accord stronger legal protection to those who defend not only their own human rights and fundamental freedoms but those of others as well,” Lagman said. 

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City jail baking partnership triggered by detainee’s appeal

By Ramon Dacawi

BAGUIO CITY -- A plea from a female detainee two years ago triggered a public-private partnership in prison reform that eventually gave weight to the Regional Kabalikat Award the city government received last week from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).

TESDA director general Joel Villanueva presented the award to city officials led by mayor Mauricio Domogan when the two forged a co-management agreement for the development of the Baguio City School of Arts and Trades (BCSAT) that provides technical and vocational skills training here.

“The (Kabalikat) award is conferred to outstanding institutions, private firm/companies, local government units and legislative partners cognizant of their good practice and contribution in the promotion and development of the country’s tech-voc workers in terms of qualification and/or competencies gained,” the TESDA said.

The citation read during the ceremony noted the city’s maintaining a high literacy rate, ,having been instrumental in training thousands of scholars in technical and vocational programs and having appropriated about P13 million from 2011 to 2013 for the joint skills teaching program.

It noted that the programs conceived and implemented included skills training for the youth, including “the underprivileged and inmates of the city’s detention facilities”.

The immersion of the inmates into the skills program took form in August, 2012 when members of the Rotary Club of Baguio Summer Capital escorted to the city jail visiting Rotarian Stanley Tokigawa of AlaMoana District 5000 in Honolulu and Prof. McQuittey of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary based in Fort Worth, Texas.

The two visitors braved a storm in coming up to Baguio to link with fellow Rotarians.

They brought three boxes of rubber sandals which their local counterparts led by club founder VirgilioBautista,club president Joris

Karl Dacawi and incoming president Edward Dogui-is thought would be appropriate to distribute to inmates.

In her response at the turn-over, a woman detainee expressed hope the Rotarians might consider bringing in a baking oven so the prisoners could produce their own morning bread.

Back in Honolulu, Tokigawa sent the amount needed for the oven that his local counterparts delivered to the city jail.

Then jail warden, Chief Insp. Wilson Banasen, the Rotarians and the city contacted BCSAT administrator, Engr. David Bugallon who, in turn, sent his staff to train the inmates to bake their own bread, using the city’s fund support.

Thirty inmates finished the 15-day course that rewarded them with the national eligibility certificate being given to baking job applicants seeking domestic and overseas employment.

Prior to the arrival of the Rotarians’ oven, the trainees got a glimpse into the course when former journalist and baking hobbyist Annabelle Codiase-Bangsoy brought in her gadgets for a demonstration.

Recently, Banasen and female detainees’ dorm wardress, Chief Insp. Mary Ann Tresmanio worked out a P250,000 fund support from the Department of Labor and Employment to fund the inmates’ bread production project.

Samples of the produce were presented to city officials during one of their Monday morning breakfast meetings.

The baking course  graduates are again preparing dough  for “pandesal”  they will serve after their three-kilometer fun-run around the jail quadrangle which mayor Domogan will flag off  morning of Sept. 16 to drum up support for the regular run the city will sponsor on Sept. 28 to raise funds for patients undergoing regular hemodialysis treatment for kidney failure.

The run-for-a-cause will also serve to launch the inmates’ bread marketing program.

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Medical mission serves 1,300

By Ramon Dacawi 

BAGUIO CITY -- The city’s annual medical-dental-optical mission to usher in its founding anniversary drew 1,300 residents last August 30 at the Baguio Convention Center, as per report of Dr.John Tinoyan, action officer for the humanitarian event.

Of those who came, 1,000 availed of free medical consultation and medicines, 200 opted for optical service and 100 for dental  medicine in the day-long mission spearheaded by the Baguio Health Department under Dr. Rowena Galpo.

Designed as a public-private partnership project, the mission drew support from Victor Liner and the Department of health provided the medicines, the Lions Club for the eyeglass frames, and manpower and professional medical service from the Department of Health,  BHD, Rotarians, Lions, Philippine Dental Association, University of Baguio College of Dentistry, the Red Cross, City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, Red Cross, Baguio-Benguet Public Information Civic Action Group, Baguio Civic Emergency Group, the Bethesda Ministry and the Grace Communion International-Baguio.

The mission was launched several years ago to give a  service and humanitarian orientation to the city’s founding anniversary celebration.

The free medical service, together with the new  run-for-a-cause feature, fleshes out the charter anniversary theme, “Sharing Responsibilities, Duties and Resources for a Viubrant Baguio” and nurtures Baguio’s centennial theme in 2009, “Fostering a Culture of Caring.

The three-bracket fun-run dubbed “Straight Into Baguio’s Heart”, will fire off on September 28 as finale of the month-long calendar of activities, specifically to raise funds for indigent kidney patients undergoing life-time hemodialysis treatment in renal centers in Baguio and Benguet.

In his administrative order adopting the fun run  as a foundation day event, city mayor Mauricio Domogan pointed out that it “will, indeed, set a tradition and culture of caring that will mark future celebrations of the Charter Anniversary of Baguio, thereby serving as a rallying point to sustain a sense of community among this city’s residents, neighbors, friends and visitors who treasure fond memories of their visits to the Summer Capital of the Philippines.

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P452M Baguio alternate road project completed

BAGUIO CITY – Traffic congestion in the city’s central business district will be significantly reduced following completion of the 16-km Baguio circumferential road linking the city’s western link in Irisan and its eastern link in the Happy Hallow area.

           

Ireneo S. Gallato, district engineer of the Baguio City District Engineering Office said the completed project is composed of at least 15.8 kilometers of concreted two-lane road pavement and around .207 kilometer of unpaved road sections that are distributed along the western and eastern links.

            

“The completion of the Baguio circumferential road will definitely help in significantly reducing traffic congestions in the city’s central business district area because thousands of motorists will have an alternate route to take from their points of origin to their points of destination and vice versa,” Gallato stressed, citing that the conceptualization up to the completion of the road project took at least 13 years to be realized.

            

Gallato said that the new circumferential road project will mainly serve as an alternate route to and from the central business district to ease traffic congestions along the city’s main roads, especially during peak hours of the day.

            

According to him, incidental to the expected convenience in the delivery of basic services, decentralization of the city’s population, business, educational institutions from the central business district are now being realized thereby translating to the improvement of lives of people in the different barangays located in the outskirts of the city.

            

The new circumferential road interconnects four major national roads, Naguilian road and Marcos highway in the western link and Kennon road and Loakan road in the eastern link.

            

Gallato disclosed among that works that were undertaken in the completion of the road included the construction and improvement as well as road opening coupled with the upgrading of the 16-kilometer roadline with a width of 6.70 meters. Furthermore, the additional works were composed of the installation of concrete sidewalks, slope protection walls and other necessary miscellaneous structures.

            

He added the completed western link will benefit the rapidly increasing student population of various educational institutions that have relocated along the area, residents of more than five subdivisions and around 10 barangays while easing travel time to various tourist destinations outside the city.

            

Gallato said completed eastern link will guarantee convenience of residents in nine barangays because of reduced travel time.

It is also the main road leading to the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) along Loakan road, the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), Camp John Hay, Baguio Country Club and the Loakan airport.

            

Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan expressed the gratitude to the Department of Public Works and Highways and the project implementers for the timely completion of the circumferential road project which will greatly help in significantly reducing the daily monstrous traffic congestions along the city’s main roads and will contribute in convincing businesses to relocate outside the city. 

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Ibaloi councilor supports IPs on lands controversy

BAGUIO CITY – Despite pronouncements of city officials that ancestral land claimants in this summer capital are a serious problem,a city councilor who belongs to the Ibaloi tribe said they are just asserting their rights voer their lands.   

Recommendations and legislative measures were brought to the attention of the council on indigenous people’s (IP) ancestral lands in a privilege speech by Councilor Isabelo Cosalan, Jr. during its session last week.

The councilor reacted to news reports “that IP ancestral land claims …are the most serious problem the city and its people are facing today.”

He said IPs are “asserting their lawful rights over their patrimony, and are also primary stakeholders of the city. The IPs need   not be feared, hated or blamed.” 

The situation should be a “wake-up call for  the city to re-examine its vision-mission-goals to truly reflect the aspiration of its people in a fast changing world,” Cosalan, Jr. added.

There have been situations too where portions of a declared forest reservation has been withdrawn for settlement or for residential purposes.

Or of migrants invading a watershed “without even a slap on the wrist,” the councilor said.

His recommendations thus, for legislative measures are for the city not to blame IP ancestral land claimants but formulate plans actions as to legal means; for it to recognize and include ancestral lands covered by appropriate ancestral land titles into the City Land Use Plan (CLUP), sectoral studies, and reiterated in the Zoning ordinance; and, implement resolution 399, series of 2009 which recognizes barangay Happy Hallow as the lone ancestral domain in the city.

The councilor recommended through an ordinance the creation and funding of an indigenous peoples affairs unit under the city planning and development office; the declaration of Happy Hallow barangay as ancestral domain; the inclusion of an ancestral land zone and IP sector in the CLUP and sectoral studies.

He also urged creation of a resolution requesting Mayor Mauricio Domogan to reconstitute a technical working group to evaluate and render recommendations on applications for Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT) over areas in the city; guidelines for the issuance of development and related permits and clearances over lands covered by CALTs or Certificates of Ancestral Land Domain (CADTs).

Councilor Cosalan, Jr. also recommended for a city council IP sectoral representative, preferably from the Ibaloi tribe.

The appointment should be subject to existing national laws, policies and guidelines and other requirements.

The councilor also recommended a resolution urging Congress through the city’s lone representative Nicasio Aliping, Jr. and chair of the house committee on national cultural communities to cause approval of an amendment to CALTs being issued.

CALTs, he said, should be annotated with a prohibition to sell or transfer within ten (10) years, “for the main reason of giving sufficient time for the city government to acquire all or portions thereof needed for public use, particularly those within reservations not classified as alienable and disposable.”

Lastly, the councilor recommended that claimants of lands covered by CALTs formulate their respective Ancestral Land Sustainable Development Protection Plan (ALSDPP) “as basic requisite to any development activity including the issuance of tax declaration.” 

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New tack vs global warming still useless

INSIGHTS

Atty Batas Mauricio

Life’s inspirations: If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name---the Lord your God---the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses…” (Deuteronomy 28:58-59, the Holy Bible). 

                                                             -ooo-

 New tack versus global warming and change still useless: I am willing to agree that the world must now focus on climate adaptation, or undertaking measures to protect ourselves from the death and destruction that come with global warming and climate change, as what the United States of America has been quietly trying to do recently in its cities and counties.

           

Indeed, the world must now act to save humanity from the warming planet’s wild weather with new directions, instead of what it had been trying to do before: find ways to stop global warming. But, unless and until world leaders will come to the realization that global warming and climate change could not be successfully staved off by man’s efforts alone, nothing is going to come out again of this new tack at “climate adaptation”.

           

The undeniable reality is that, whether man is pursuing climate adaptation or fighting off global warming and climate change by cutting carbon emission, he, by himself alone, cannot succeed in doing it, and the trillions and trillions of dollars he has been employing in his puny efforts will just go down the drain and will not benefit anyone, and death and destruction will continue to victimize men and women everywhere.

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Global warming and climate change as curses from God: The world needs God to successfully fight global warming and climate change. The fact is that God’s Holy Bible categorically states that global warming and climate change are curses coming from God Himself, for two particular reasons---man is no longer listening to God (meaning, man is no longer reading His Bible), and is no longer obeying His commands.

           

We can find this in Deuteronomy 28:15 and 22-23 of the Bible. These passages say: If you no longer listen to God, and no longer obey His commands, all these curses will come upon you: The Lord will strike you with scorching heat, the sky over your head will burn with heat, the ground you step will become like iron, and dust and powder will rain upon you from the skies, until you are destroyed.

           

Surely, these calamities are now upon us today. And the sad reality is that they will continue to be with us, without let-up, without anyone being able to do anything about them despite the attempts, totally inutile of course, of world leaders, precisely because the prediction from the Bible is that all, of these will happen to us, until we are all destroyed.

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 Spiritual solution to global warming: Is there any other thing then that global leaders can do in the face of this grim future? Yes, there is. Side by side with their present endeavors to either fight off or adapt to global warming and climate change, they must understand that since these curses are brought about by a very spiritual and a very Biblical basis, a big part of the solution must also be spiritual and Biblical.

           

That spiritual and Biblical solution is provided for by the Bible itself: since global warming and climate change are caused by people who no longer listen to God and who no longer obey His commands, an effort must be made to bring back humanity to listen to God once again and to obey Him once more.

           

It is only when people are listening to God and obeying Him once more that things will start to change for the better. A people who live by God’s Word and God’s commands will be effective instruments of environmental caring, a people who will not destroy nature and the environment because they believe that everything in this world is part of God’s wonderful creation, and a people who are no longer cursed but inspired with ideas that will make the world a better place to live in.

                                                      -ooo-

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Here’s why men and women become ga

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Atty Batas Mauricio  

Life’s’ inspirations: “… God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy…” (Romans 1:28-31, the Holy Bible). 

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Facebook vilifies, glorifies Marcos: Did you notice how Facebook is being used right now to both glorify and vilify former President Marcos? Posts after posts in Facebook are showing Marcos delivering a speech infront of then US President Reagan without reading from a prepared text, or talking about the downfall of the Philippines in 20 years from the EDSA Revolution in 1986.

           

Almost simultaneously, however, many other posts are being uploaded about how Marcos plundered the country during his near 20-year reign, how the supposed corruption and countless abuses in his government brought the country to perdition, and how martial law was used to further his own interests. Is this a preview of 2016?

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Gays increasing in number: And, so Filipino singing sensation Charice Pempengco admitted she is gay---meaning, she is a lesbian (a woman who has the heart and feelings of a man, but who craves for a woman as a partner, not a man). The admission came in the heels of a controversy involving a popular gay comedian who joked about how a news anchor from a rival channel would react if raped.

           

Then, again, we are witnesses to male and female gays in our communities, in our neighborhoods and even in our own families. The popular reaction is, how come gays are getting more numerous even if they are not giving birth to children of their kind? Indeed, this popular reaction is a very valid question. What is happening to our country---and to the world---so that gays are relentlessly increasing in number?

           

Pardon my resolve but, I wish offer two explanations. The first is scientific: men and women are becoming gay because of what they and their parents have been eating. Yes, you read it right---eating has something to do with men and women becoming gay. Why? Well, because many of the things we eat now are genetically modified, the genetic modification is absorbed in our bodies and in our minds, so that a modification of our gender or sex also comes about.

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 Here’s why men and women become gay: My second explanation is Biblical. Men and women becoming gay is a curse from God, given to people who no longer acknowledge nor thank Him. Let us read a long passage from the Bible which talks about this, found in Romans 1:18-32. It reads: “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness...

           

 “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him… and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles... Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

           

“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

           

“In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error…”

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Comelec cheating

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS

Atty. Batas Mauricio

Life’s inspirations: “… Cursed is the cheat…” (Malachi 1:14, the Holy Bible).

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 Gordon to SC: Stop Comelec tampering: Here’s a press statement coming from the camp of defeated senatorial candidate Richard Gordon, posted in Facebook by his chief of staff, lawyer Rodolfo “Inky” Reyes: “Gordon is asking the Supreme Court to stop the Commission on Elections from removing the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines used in the May 13 national and local elections from the polling precincts where they have been stationed for the recently-concluded elections.

“In a 14-page Urgent Omnibus Motion with a prayer for the issuance of a temporary restraining order, Gordon asked the high tribunal to direct Chairman SixtoBrillantes to comply with his earlier commitment to provide the petitioners or their designated representatives or information technology experts with a complete compilable digital copy of the source code for the automated election system used in the May 13 polls.

“In asking for the issuance of an order to stop the poll body from removing the PCOS machines from their respective precincts, schoolhouses, or present whereabouts and transferring them to the Comelec warehouses, Gordon said this is necessary to prevent anyone from tampering with the components, contents and software encoded into the machines.

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  TRO sought on PCOS transfer to Comelec : “Gordon, author of Republic Act 9369 or the Automated Elections System Law, pointed out that the issuance of a restraining order would preserve their legal right to determine whether or not the source code encoded or loaded into the PCOS machines are identical to the source code to be provided by the Comelec to the petitioners.

“As a necessary corollary to this Court’s directive for Brillantes to allow the Petitioners’ fair examination and review of the Source Code, it is imperative that the Petitioners and their designated representatives likewise be granted an opportunity to ascertain that the Source Code to be provided by the Respondent for the automated election system of the 13 May 2013 national and local elections are indeed the same Source Code compiled and encoded into the PCOS machines,’ Gordon said in the motion.

“ `Thus, it is imperative for the Respondent to produce and make available to the Petitioners and their designated representatives a complete compilable copy of the Source Code duly recorded on standard optical or similar commercially-available digital media.

A ‘compilable copy’ of computer software is a digital copy of computer software that can be readily transformed, encoded, or `compiled’ into machine-readable binary code and electronically tested,’ he added.

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  Review of PCOS source code to see if tampering is done: “Gordon stressed that it is imperative for the Supreme Court to stop the Comelec or any other party from handling the PCOS machines and possibly tampering with the program installed in them since it would render futile a review and comparison of the source code.

“ `A review of the source code would show any mismatch between the respective hash codes generated from the Source Code and those from the PCOS machines’ embedded software. It would show possible tampering and/or the unlawful adulteration of the Source Code prior to their loading into the PCOS machines used for the 13 May 2013 national and local elections,” Gordon said.

“If the evidence represented by the software actually embedded into the PCOS machines are not preserved through the proper injunctive writs from this Honorable Tribunal, the Respondent may just remove the actual Source Code loaded into the PCOS machines and erase whatever anomaly that it or other unscrupulous individuals may have committed to corrupt the automated election system and subvert the true sovereign will of the people during the 13 May 2013 national and local elections,’ he added…”

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