E·N·Q·U·I·R·Y
DEMAREE J.B. RAVAL
DEMAREE J.B. RAVAL
Tipo-tipo, Basilan
Sunday, 06 12, 2005
There is no denying the authenticity of the “Garci” Tapes showing conspiracy to commit fraud in the May 10, 2004 elections. The details mentioned in the tapes, from names to numbers to places and events, correspond without question to actual names, numbers places and events that had their own notoriety during the election proper and, eventually, during the national canvass.
Consider the portion of the tape that has to do with the municipality of Tipo-Tipo in the Province of Basilan. “Garci” and his lady phone pal with the gravelly voice expressed concern over the fact that a lady member of the Board of Canvassers of Tipo-Tipo was now in the protective custody of the camp of Fernando Poe, Jr..
The lady had rushed to Manila together with another lady member of the Board of Canvassers of another municipality in Basilan. Both of them were running scared from a local political warlord who was securing all copies of the ERs and SOVs. One of them was intercepted by the other side upon her arrival in Manila. The other was more fortunate: She was rescued by a member of the FPJPM and promptly placed under their protective custody. She detailed everything she knew, and turned over the election returns (ERs) and the statements of votes (SOVs) by precincts. Without hesitation, she put them down in affidavit form.
While the canvassing in Congress was going on, she surprisingly ended up on the other side, and what followed was a testimony to the power of power: she executed an affidavit alleging she had been abducted and forced to execute an affidavit detailing fraud that, according to her, never existed. Two lawyers were charged for allegedly abducting her, and that prompted the walkout of all lawyers for candidates FPJ and Loren Legarda on June 19, 2004.
The concern of Garci and his phone pal was not unfounded: the lady had with her the complete set of ERs and SOVs by precincts for Tipo-Tipo, and she could spill the beans on how they committed fraud in Tipo-Tipo. The lady had to be silenced, according to Garci, and that could be done by gathering the members of her family to convince her to return and keep quiet about the whole affair. They had been looking for her, and somehow she had to be silenced. True enough, with their resources, they traced the lady and were successful in “convincing” her to turn against her erstwhile protective custodians. What is in Tipo-Tipo that made Garci and his phone pal shake to their boots? The ERs and the SOVs by precincts turned over by the lady show the following:
FPJ
GMA
Per ER
Per SOV
Precinct
Per ER
Per SOV
93
93
2A
39
98
146
38
5/6A
31
174
132
19
16A
19
131
109
89
17A
8
109
76
7
34A
7
76
277
74
37/38A
4
277
96
0
46A
10
100
104
104
48A
41
191
80
2
61/62A
138
132
104
58
68A
58
104
123
123
71A
36
136
92
44
72A
44
192
136
136
96A
21
211
174
38
98/99A
38
174
61
52
1A
52
61
78
13
9A
63
78
93
56
11A
56
93
74
28
12A
49
71
90
56
13A
56
90
132
26
15A
26
132
154
23
18/19A
23
154
154
49
24A
13
74
151
11
26A
11
151
93
77
28A
77
93
55
13
47A
28
55
230
11
53/54A
11
230
107
52
70A
52
107
123
52
73A
52
123
109
38
74A
38
109
119
63
76A
51
119
138
51
97A
13
138
121
28
108A
28
121
165
33
112/113A
33
165
154
93
7A
4
154
63
39
57A
10
63
120
82
59/60A
7
120
103
62
64A
170
170
55
10
65A
95
95
135
10
66A
39
135
135
17
75A
27
135
66
78
77A
29
66
78
50
87A
100
100
103
36
93/94A
82
103
121
7
95A
17
121
184
30
103/104A
69
184
86
5
10A
58
86
138
16
14A
16
138
121
16
20A
40
138
135
27
21A
27
135
114
30
22A
30
114
179
3
33A
3
179
108
0
35A
2
108
176
1
36A
1
176
111
65
39A
48
111
113
73
40/41A
73
113
206
25
55/56A
48
120
111
48
67A
69
206
47
25
79A
25
47
167
3
80A
11
167
114
0
81A
3
114
85
69
106/107A
65
149
120
40
111A
25
121
44
63
120A
63
44
111
22
4A
22
141
159
11
27A
1
159
141
16
29/30A
112
112
85
54
45A
14
65
100
63
49A
64
100
82
118
50A
69
138
109
62
52A
38
89
71
71
58A
2
98
93
20
86A
86
187
188
70
89/90A
70
188
132
9
115A
0
150
Res ipsa loquitor! Now, you know why Congress did not want the ERs to be opened. These figures should have been presented during the National Canvass, but then the FPJ lawyers had walked out before the results from Basilan were to be canvassed. The Presidential Electoral Tribunal was to be the next forum, but the protest of FPJ has since been junked. Hopefully, there will be the People’s Electoral Tribunal, where the ERs and SOVs of Tipo-Tipo along with the other towns in Basilan, will be presented as exhibits of fraud, after Cebu.
Before my office gets ransacked again - by the way, the evidence are no longer there - I am bringing the figures out now, and I have four (4) copies of them.
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