text: [{"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "3 cruise ships to bring in over 1K tourists in E...."}, {"text_idx": "#000007", "text": "Biliran Probation chief appeals for clients\u2019 support"}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "LGU-Naval mopahigayon ug public hearing"}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "DTI-Biliran distributes livelihood starter kits to MSMEs"}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "Former Congressman of the lone district of Biliran, Atty. Glenn C. Chong\u2019s spirit is buoyed up by a good number of Biliran voters who are unceasingly giving him all-out support in his electoral protest against COMELEC \u2013 proclaimed Representative Roger Espina."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Atty. Chong intimated to this column that he almost reached a certain point of giving up earlier considering how costly and turtle-paced the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) is in deciding on electoral protest cases as experienced in the past."}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "We have known scores of electoral protests similar to this that were decided on the year or even few months before the end of the term of the contested position. That\u2019s heart-wrecking"}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "If my memory \u201cstill\u201d serves me right (the aging status, hehe) one Rosette Yniguez Lerias, of the lone district of Southern Leyte won an electoral protest against Congressman Roger \u201cOging\u201d Mercado years ago, but she was left of only seven months to serve the remaining term. Eventually and sadly she lost when they staged a return bout during the election year few months that followed."}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "In Glenn Chong\u2019s case he is emotionally emboldened when the people themselves initiated their protest through peaceful rallies from May 12-June 21. What was touching to the young lawmaker is when the people raised funds to help him underwrite the expenses for this unprecedented bold attempt to nullify the COMELEC proclamation of Roger Espina. Glenn has high hopes that it will be easier to get the authentic results with a recount from the ballots. The people simply want to find out the TRUTH about the controversial results in that May 10, 2010 elections in Biliran. They wanted to know where their votes went."}, {"text_idx": "#000018", "text": "These people shared P20, some P50, even P10 from lowly people that include sikad-sikad drivers, fish vendors, real ordinary folks and many others who belong to the affluent gentry who strongly believe that their votes were not credibly counted, Glenn says. Funds campaign leaders feel confident that, at the rate these contributions are coming in they could raise P20 thousand at month\u2019s end."}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "Atty. Glenn Chong shared with this column, scores of data/evidences to prove alleged electoral fraud that denied him his alleged victory in the recently concluded May elections. At the moment he is preparing charges to about 15 Board of Election Inspectors and election officials province-wide who he says obviously participated in the alleged fraud. This column feels that he is not at liberty to narrate these evidences as these would already be looked into by the HRET."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Rep. Teodoro Locsin, chair of the committee on Suffrage in the House who conducted hearings on a number of alleged electoral frauds nationwide has this to say in his report:"}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "\u201cRep. Chong\u2019s complaint is the most comprehensive in terms of evidences; clearest, cohesive........\u201d Worth watching!"}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "i want to see the result of the recount the soonest posible time.i have only filled 7 positions during MAY election and 3 lost out of that.fight glenn.at this time,prayer is the only thing i could help."}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "anyone help me how to donate..? Is it available online?"}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "kaya mo yan TRUTH/GlennChong... be safe always. put god always on your journey."}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "#7 huwat huwat lang. May Guinoo man nagtan-aw sa taas. Justice and Peace will reign. May punishment ang may sala.\nAbout the provision of school bags, school bus, logically dili gayud si atty Glenn maka implement sa karun kay wala na man sya sa office isip representante sa Lone District sa Biliran. But pag abot sa panahon nga ipakanaug na sa HRET ang hukom, pangutana-andam ba ang inyong kampo mudawat sa resolution (tanggalan sa pwesto si Dr. Roger isip Congressista ug ipuli si atty Chong)?"}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "Si congressman Glenn Chong pa jud maoy sukmatan aron tagaag justisya iyang Saul..\nKay otro pod Biktima ang mga Chong...\nMaayo mag si congressman Glenn Chong maoy nag hawid sa kaso.\nNa unsa mn ka biktima oi, sinuholan mn tengale ka aron samokon si Glenn, nakakita bitaw ka nga may bug\u2019at pa og emportante nga giatobang.. Naa pud ka diha nagpa siaw.."}, {"text_idx": "#000032", "text": "Maka hinumdum nalang nuon ko,.\nKadtong una nga ang mga espina kay gi RALLYhan \u2013 mo ingun pud nga ELEGAL ang rally,,\nSaktong prosiso ba kanang imong gi buhat nga mag saba saba ka denhe sa blogs? Nga konuhay ning laban ka ni Saul? Unya sukmatan nemo si Glenn nga maoy mag hatag og HUSTISYA kang Saul?\nNga\u2019ab ramay nag dako nenyo BIKTIMA, pero wa jud kay gi buhat.. Style bolok.."}, {"text_idx": "#000033", "text": "si gloria arroyo pud unta ang pabayron sa bilyon- bilyon nga utang sa pilipinas sa iyang termino. apil si glenn chong kay nakatagamtam man pud siya ani. mao bitaw nakapalit 5 ka fortuner ug nakagasto 100 million ad2ng eleksyon. bantay mo kay mao ra ba na nga mga utang ang punterya ni noynoy aquino karon,"}, {"text_idx": "#000035", "text": "Dili jud makadawat ning manga alipures ni Espina nga tika human na jud ang OJT ni Tiguwang Opaw, Gerryboy og Roger...\nCalma lang mo kay naa bitaw BILIRAN GARDEN og uban pang balay ni Espina .. Pwede na nato e bayad sa dakong otang sa probincya..."}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "Glen BAyot aw mao ba, kabalo sad di ay ka sakitan? Di ba mao nay imong buhat kini ari sa mga espina bisan unsa nalang inyong mga pakadaut ug pag bi ay bi ay sa dihang ikaw pa ang naglingkod sa trono, mura yati ug ikaw tag iya sa tibuok biliran manulti bisan sa radio natin mura ka ug walay grado manulti. Mao ba nay kinaiya sa usa ka abogado ug edukado nga tawo? Walay sukod sa balos buang nga abogado ug salamat kay ning angkon ka nga buang ka kay pag umangkon baya ka ni powie kadtong buang kini ari sa naval nga may singko ug pareho baya sad to nimo ug nawong."}, {"text_idx": "#000039", "text": "Kay matanggap ni atty Glenn imo mga biay biay. apan kami nga mga taga Biliran, dinhi natawo sa Biliran Island-dili ka namo mapasaylo sa imong pag biay biay. ang pagpangawat sa mga votes murag tantamount nga imo giyatak yatakan ang among katungod sa pagpili ug mga bag-o leaders nga magdasla kanamo sa dalan nga straight. Ang mga espina eversince they came to Biliran had not given us the peace-of-mind, bagkos, they gave us the opposite. Atty Parilla was killed by the guard of Gerry Espina. Another Parilla was killed in an ambush June 07, 2008, the suspects are the CIDG men under the command of the Provincial Governor (Espina). Ug nagsalig lang kamo nga walay katakos ang mga ordinaryong mga tawo nga mosupak sa illegal nga mandato."}, {"text_idx": "#000044", "text": "Audit shows May 10 polls 99.6% accurate"}, {"text_idx": "#000046", "text": "MANILA, Philippines\u2014Automated elections are here to stay."}, {"text_idx": "#000047", "text": "This was the pronouncement of Jose Melo, chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), after results of a random manual audit of ballots from the May 10 polls showed a 99.6-percent accuracy."}, {"text_idx": "#000048", "text": "Henrietta de Villa, chair of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), yesterday presented a report on the audit of 1,145 clustered precincts, which declared that the results of the automated elections were accurate."}, {"text_idx": "#000049", "text": "The report said that none of the presidential, vice presidential, congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral races audited in the selected precincts \u201cfailed the accuracy test of 99 percent.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000050", "text": "Melo said he was heartened by the findings, which compared the results of the voting machines with the manual count conducted by auditors."}, {"text_idx": "#000052", "text": "That losing politicians conceded after preliminary results were known a day after the polls closed was a sign that the automated election system was trustworthy, Melo said."}, {"text_idx": "#000054", "text": "But one of the information technology critics of the Comelec is skeptical of the audit results."}, {"text_idx": "#000055", "text": "Augusto Lagman said the Comelec request for a proposal from the private sector for an automated election system had mandated that the voting machines have a 99.99-percent accuracy rate."}, {"text_idx": "#000056", "text": "Lagman said the findings of the random manual audit \u201cdo not meet that requirement.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000057", "text": "De Villa said the PPCRV could not use the accuracy threshold for the voting machines because the audit was subject to a host of external and human factors."}, {"text_idx": "#000059", "text": "In addition, the National Statistics Office (NSO) determined the allowable margin of variance for the audit, according to De Villa."}, {"text_idx": "#000060", "text": "Lagman also questioned the delay in the release of the results. \u201cI\u2019m not happy about it. Why only now? That itself is a failure,\u201d he added."}, {"text_idx": "#000062", "text": "The random manual audit only managed to count 1,046 clustered precincts, which translated to about 500,000 votes. De Villa said the remaining precincts were not able to send their results to the Comelec."}, {"text_idx": "#000063", "text": "There were some 75,000 clustered precincts during the May 10 general elections."}, {"text_idx": "#000064", "text": "Although the audit was incomplete and took longer than expected, De Villa and Melo said the results were more than enough to establish the integrity of the voting machines."}, {"text_idx": "#000065", "text": "The automated elections law says that the accuracy rate of the count must be 99 percent, allowing a variance of 1 percent or a difference of 10 votes for every 1,000 valid ballots cast."}, {"text_idx": "#000066", "text": "Variance refers to the difference in the machine count and in the audit of the results by teacher-auditors enlisted by the Comelec to examine the ballots from the participating precincts."}, {"text_idx": "#000067", "text": "Counts with a difference of at least 10 votes were sent to the NSO for root-cause verification, which determined the errors. Some errors, officials said, were due to miscounting by the auditors."}, {"text_idx": "#000068", "text": "NSO representative Florante Varona said the presidential, vice presidential, House, gubernatorial and mayoral races had an accuracy rate of 99.6 percent. \u201cThere was a variance of 0.4 percent,\u201d he said."}, {"text_idx": "#000069", "text": "Varona said the variance was lower than the 1-percent threshold."}, {"text_idx": "#000070", "text": "The audit report said the variance for the count in the presidential race was 0.49 percent. In the vice presidential race, it was 0.40 percent. The combined variance for the local posts was 0.37 percent."}, {"text_idx": "#000071", "text": "The audit report also showed certain problems in the counting that has to be raised with the Comelec."}, {"text_idx": "#000072", "text": "The report said there two-digit discrepancies in four precincts, high number of rejected ballots in two precincts, and \u201clarge\u201d variances for the Manila mayoral race that was due to a voting-machine error."}, {"text_idx": "#000073", "text": "\u201cThe validation team could not identify the reason for the large variances, especially for the position of mayor, even after the retrieval and opening of the ballot boxes,\u201d the report said."}, {"text_idx": "#000074", "text": "Upon inspection of the ballot images, it was revealed that there was a vertical line running through the local ballots that was not seen in the paper documents."}, {"text_idx": "#000078", "text": "Atienza yesterday expressed apprehension and dismay over the delay in the proceedings of his election protest against Mayor Alfredo Lim in light of the large discrepancies the manual audit uncovered in the city\u2019s mayoral race."}, {"text_idx": "#000079", "text": "Atienza asked the Comelec, where his protest is pending, to expedite the release of the order for the immediate retrieval of the boxes containing the ballots of certain precincts so the revision and recount of the votes could start."}, {"text_idx": "#000080", "text": "The audit team said it was up to the Comelec to decide on a handful of cases that it could not explain."}, {"text_idx": "#000081", "text": "The random manual audit committee said there were a difference of 24 votes in a precinct in Pambujan, Northern Samar; 13 votes in Tuburan, Basilan; 14 votes in Gerona, Tarlac; and 18 votes in Tarlac City, Tarlac."}, {"text_idx": "#000085", "text": "pila man n.u nadawat sa mga espina? arun lang n.u cla depensahan? ha?"}, {"text_idx": "#000087", "text": "kumusta sa lahat jan? happy sunday.... cong ingat po sa pagbalik nyo sa mla..we always pray for your safety.."}, {"text_idx": "#000088", "text": "ikaw maoy bayot kaayong dako. boang ka kaayong dako. ayaw ingnanaa ang among congressman gleen chong kay ikaw mismo kumayingking ka ra nya. dili preha sa imo mga amo espina kawatan.tulisan, mga buwaon dagko. dapat imo amo maoy pabayaron sa utang sa biliran dili kami mga tawo sa biliran. go congressman glenn... we will fight for the right. we the people of biliran support u.. paalisin mga hayop na espina sa biliran. GOd blessed cong.gleen and the people of biliran prov."}, {"text_idx": "#000092", "text": "AHMM....glenn chong 4ever..untah hahahah..i know one day moh gwas ang kamato.uran...weeeh?hahahahhaha"}, {"text_idx": "#000096", "text": "Hey nagdali pag pass bye:"}, {"text_idx": "#000097", "text": "Ayuha usa imong spelling ngari oy ugsa ka manamay sa mga supporters ni GC.."}, {"text_idx": "#000102", "text": "\u201cchong supporters, puro lang kayo ngawa, wala nman kayong mga nagawa...ur fond of accussing people.. where are your evidences?present it to the proper place pra makita ang katag...\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000108", "text": "pero wa ka ksbot ana about sa school bus.. legal na tanan.. speaking of mnilyon na balay.. sa ila na mag igsuon na balay.. d man gni na mu abot ug 1m ang kantidad sa baly..bstag ad2.on pa nmu sa maripipi then estimate.. ang kana na hi lander 2nd hand na na.. g.bligya na ra na.. bsag tan.awon pa na nmu na skyanan.. pati mga papers. pakatamay nla pud n.u sa amu pamilya.. naa pud me kwarta ui.. kung kwarta nman la ang g.biling nganu mu sulod pa man gud sa pulitika.. naa man trabaho.. mas angayan pa.. d pa stressful ang trabaho.."}, {"text_idx": "#000109", "text": "4 what pa nga na democratic ang a2 country ug wa right ang kada usa ka tawo mag phayag sa iya opinion.. d ba?"}, {"text_idx": "#000116", "text": "Notify me of follow-up comments by email."}, {"text_idx": "#000117", "text": "Notify me of new posts by email."}, {"text_idx": "#000121", "text": "3 cruise ships to bring in over 1K tourists in E...."}]