The Minority Report
On the canvassing of votes cast for the 2004 presidential and vice-presidential candidates. download the report (pdf file: 672kb)
55 percent of Filipinos doubt election results
Social Weather Stations
The August 2004 survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) found 23 percent of the public saying that Fernando Poe Jr. and Loren Legarda were definitely cheated, and another 32 percent saying that they were probably cheated, or a total of 55 percent doubting the official result of the last election. read survey results
Stealing the May 2004 elections: A video documentary
Long before the ‘Hello, Garci’ tapes surfaced there was this 36-minute video produced and circulated in the first half of June 2004 that provided a documentation of the massive electoral fraud and violence in the May 2004 elections. The report is based on the examination and analysis of copies of official election returns (ERs), statement of votes (SOVs), and certificates of canvass (COCs), and affidavits and reports of election monitors and pollwatchers. Frank Chavez, former solicitor-general under the Cory administration, provides the commentary. see the video
Farewell to democracy
Ben Lim for abs-cbnNEWS
The 2004 elections have produced enough strange and unsettling developments to haunt our people in the years to come. That the Comelec failed miserably in carrying out its mandate to conduct honest and fair elections continues to anger our citizenry and erode the integrity of our leaders and democracy in the Philippines. The extent of popular revulsion at the Comelec commissioners parallels their anger against the martial law regime. read on
The true results of the 2004 presidential elections
based on the NAMFREL tally: A final report
Roberto Verzola, Coalition for HOPE
These are the author's reports on the conduct of NAMFREL's monitoring and quick-count of the May 2004 elections prepared for the citizen and church-based Coalition for Honest and Peaceful Elections (HOPE), where Verzola served as a volunteer during the elections campaign. download the report (rtf file)
A Challenge to NAMFREL
Roberto Verzola, Coalition for HOPE
I can sit down with any NAMFREL official or technical person to explain my analysis, to show them the demonstrable pro-GMA bias in the NAMFREL tally. I am willing to face any NAMFREL official in a public forum to discuss this issue. If they have any sense of public accountability at all, they cannot ignore this challenge. read on
Criminals
A TODAY editorial
That's what Namfrel chairman Jose Concepcion and his executive director Guillermo Luz will be--criminals--if they stop, before counting the very last vote out there, the Namfrel so-called quick count that seems like it will take forever than that it is taking its sweet time until it gets returns it likes as opposed to those it fears. Concepcion has made noises that Namfrel will stop its count at something like 75 percent--and that in a baby's butt-tight race where the remaining 25 percent definitely holds the secret of the true winner. read on
Necessary evil
Conrado de Quiros for Inquirer News Services
The cheating in the elections happened in the first place because those sectors agreed that it was all right for GMA to cheat to prevent a 'greater evil', which was FPJ becoming president. read on
Why is the May polls the most fraudulent and violent?
IBON Features
Despite government pronouncements of a “generally peaceful” polls, the 2004 elections will still go down in history as the most fraudulent and violent ever. Why? One of the reasons is the political faction created by EDSA Dos. read on
End of GMA—and the elite?
Alejandro Lichauco for The Daily Tribune
Whether GMA wins the official count and is proclaimed President is now of incidental importance. What these elections have established is that the people have spoken overwhelmingly against the GMA presidency and what it stands for. This is obvious from the sum total of votes cast for FPJ, Ping Lacson and Bro. Eddie, all of whom represent resistance to the GMA presidency and a desire for fundamental change. read on
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