Bamban mayor’s amazing election /Bidder protests Comelec ‘partiality’

Senators suspect Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo of Chinese nationality. Initial inquiry revealed:

• Home study up to high school, and registration of birth only at age 17 in 1986. No certificate of home education by a certain “Teacher Rubilyn,” or hospital birth;

• Hazy parentage, but clear ties to offshore gaming for Chinese high rollers;

• Very fluent in Mandarin, which she claimed as self-studied;

• Abrupt entry to politics in late 2021, but elected in May 2022 with a margin of 465 votes against a long-serving barangay chairman.

Former information-communications technology secretary Eliseo Rio analyzed the votes for seven mayoralty rivals. “Election Returns from Bamban’s 65 precincts show the same statistically impossible pattern observed in Sto. Tomas, Batangas and National Capital Region,” he posted on Facebook (https://tinyurl.com/Bamban-Mayoralty). Examples:

• Fifth placer Son Marimla got 0 vote in 16 precincts; 1 vote in each of 21 others; 2 votes in 11; 3 votes in five; 5 votes in another five; 4 votes in four; then 6, 9 and 12 votes in one precinct each.

• Sixth placer Nestor Serrano got 0 in 25 precincts; 1 vote each in 17 others; 2 votes in 13; 3 votes in five; 4 votes in two; 6 votes in another two and 5 votes in one.

• Seventh placer Ferdi Mariano got 0 in 33 precincts; 1 vote each in 21 others; 2 votes in seven; 3 votes in three and 4 votes in one.

“Perfectly sequenced were 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 votes, and so on to the candidate’s highest votes in several precincts. This indicates result manipulation,” Rio noted. “Votes of these bottom placers were trimmed and added to the winning candidate’s. A well-trimmed hedgerow is statistically impossible to grow naturally; it has to be manipulated.”

Rio said: “Compare this irregularity with the votes of the fourth and fifth placers for president in NCR’s 10,462 precincts, which were also obviously trimmed:”

• Fourth placer Ping Lacson got 0 in 38 precincts; 1 vote each in 91 others; 2 votes in 178; 3 votes in 230; 4 votes in 299; 5 votes in 348; 6 votes in 428; 7 votes in 502; 8 votes in 533; 9 votes in 650; 10 votes in 621; 11 votes in 665; 12 votes in 670; 13 votes in 639; 14 votes in 628;

15 votes in 568; 16