A GREAT CONSPIRACY THAT WOULD DENY FERDINAND "BONGBONG" MARCOS, JR. HIS VICTORY AS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES?

The blogger noticed this trend in the wee hours of  May 10, when Bongbong Marcos was leading Robredo by close to a million votes. It was allegedly during that time that a personnel of Smartmatic made an unauthorized change in the so-called transparency server of the Commission on Elections.

In a news article by a Philippine News Agency writer entitled "Change made by Smartmatic affected poll results, say IT expert, professor,"

The news item runs thus:

"Information Technology lawyer Rogelio Quevedo, and social science professor Antonio Contreras urged the poll body to conduct a forensic investigation of the entire election system since the integrity of the 2016 elections has been under a cloud of doubt due to the admission that the system had an unauthorized interference by the service provided in the just concluded polls.

"Quevedo, who is a member of the Comelec Advisory Council, pointed out that the mere change in the dash code during the transmission period meant something was not right,

"Although he refused to say whether such change caused cheating in the transmission, it is precisely the reason why Comelec should order an independent forensic investigation to erase all doubts created by the admission of unauthorized change.

"Yung password, yung change ng dash code meant something was not right and the proper step should be for the conduct of a forensic investigation preferably by the Technical Evaluation Committee which I think is quite independent and they are familiar with the vote counting machine technology," Quevedo said.

"For his part, Contreras noted that based on the evaluation he conducted with David Yap, his fellow university professor, revealed that the rise of all the vice-presidential candidates showed a uniform pattern which created a linear line.

"He pointed out that such occurrence was not normal in elections especially when results from all areas were being transmitted at random."

End of news article..  .

LAUNCHING OF "UMAYKA MANEN, GANGGANNAET/COME AGAIN, STRANGER"

     "Umayka Manen, Ganggannaet/Come Again, Stranger," an anthology of Ilokano and English poems, 2nd edition, will be formally launched, along with the books of Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, in the forthcoming "2016 Nakem Conference" in Pangil, Currimao, Ilocos Norte on May 23-25.

The author as child actor in a drama presentation at the the Spanish-inspired stage at the Laoag Plaza.

     Our eternal gratitude to Apo Dr. Agca, the spark-plug of Nakem Conferences, and Dr. Alegria Tan-Visaya  for the opportunity given to my book of poetry, which has been published in soft cover by Saranay Publications of the esteemed Ilokano writer, Mr. Ariel Sotelo Tabag.