Ex Health Secretaries Cabral, Romualdez and Galvez Tan to file intervention and opposition to petitions versus the Reroductive Health law at the Supreme Court today at 1030 am. I will be standing as their counsel with Prof Beth Pangalangan , Romel Bagares, GP Gonzales and Ethel Avisado.
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Citizens against an imperious Comelec | BusinessWorld Online
Public interest lawyers never lose their cases in Court. They are vindicated by history. We said the exact same thing as Gordon declared in Court today that automated elections cannot be held without review of the source code. Gordon then was on the other side of the fence as author of the automation law. See!
The civil society groups that filed the UN communications against the use of the PCOS slammed the alleged “arrival” of the source code days before the May 13 polls.
“It’s just too late,” said Professor Harry L. Roque, Jr., counsel for the group. “What will this accomplish other than being a deceitful PR stunt?”
Roque added, “The Law requires examination of the source code not just presentation. The belated arrival of the source code is useless against safeguarding the sanctity of the ballot. The examination of the source code is a process that will take at least six months.”
The failure of the COMELEC to have the source code examined for both the 2010 and 2013 elections will surely bolster the claim of the petitioners before the UN Human Rights Committee to have a declaration that their rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) have been violated by the COMELEC and Smartmatic
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