Smartmatic Project Director and General Manager Elie Moreno listens as Project Manager Marlon Garcia explains how they change the script in the poll body鈥檚 transparency server during a press conference in Commission on Election Headquarters, Philippine International Convention Center, Pasay City.聽聽RICHARD A. REYES
THE CAMP of Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will file on Tuesday another set of criminal cases against Smartmatic executives and a Commission on Elections (Comelec) IT representative for their unauthorized script change in the poll body鈥檚 transparency server.
In a statement, the Marcos quick count center head and lawyer, Jose Amor Amorado,聽 said the complaint of violation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2010 against the three Smartmatic executives and the Comelec鈥檚 IT officer was premised on, 鈥渞es ipsa loquitor (the thing speaks for itself).鈥�
鈥淲e will file the appropriate complaint for violation of the cybercrime law against Smartmatic and Comelec IT representative in the transparency server for opening the system without authority of the Comelec and instituting changes in the script,鈥� Amorado said.
According to Amorado, to be included in the complaint to be filed in the Manila prosecutor鈥檚 office are Smartmatic executive Marlon Garcia, project director Elie Moreno and technical support member Neil Banigued, and Comelec IT officer Rouie Pe帽alba.
The lawyer attributed to the four officers the unauthorized script change in the Comelec鈥檚 transparency server on the night of the polls.
Offenses that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems, including 鈥渋llegal access of any part of a computer system without right,鈥� were punishable under the Cybercrime Prevention Act鈥檚 Section 4 of Chapter 2, according to Amorado.
The lawyer said the Marcos camp had enough evidence, including public documents and Comelec pronouncements that the script change was unauthorized, to pin down the Smartmatic executives and Comelec IT representative.
He said the Marcos camp would also seek a hold-departure order against the Smartmatic executives when the case was filed in court.
Amorado said his group would also ask Congress to set aside questionable certificates of canvass (COCs) to give way to the canvassing of valid COCs, citing several reports of amended COCs. Jeannette I. Andrade
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