Poe: Guard against poll fraud

Presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe is urging lawyers and information technology experts volunteering to help their “Galing at Puso” campaign for the presidency to help them avoid a repeat of the alleged massive electoral fraud seen in the 2004 presidential elections. Poe made the pitch at the first national convention of her legal team, attended by 450 volunteer lawyers, information technology experts, counting specialists and management experts last Saturday at the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) headquarters in New Manila, Quezon City. Speaking at the convention organized by the NPC for the “Grace Poe-Chiz (Sen. Francis Escudero) Legal Team,” the lady senator voiced anxiety over the recent developments in the Commission on Elections (Comelec), particularly after the poll body warned of a possible postponement of the automated elections after the Supreme Court (SC) order requiring the issuance of voter receipts. Poe recalled that when her father, the late actor Fernando “FPJ” [...]