Article About Rigged OAV Not (Totally) True

Did you share that article about a Smartmatic representative admitting fraud in the recently held OAV in Hongkong? Well you got duped, because it's fake!

An article about a Smartmatic technician confirming that the alleged vote rigging in Hong Kong was pre-planned has been making rounds since the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV). The voting was held from April 9-May 9, 2016. The same article contains a video from GMA News reporting on OFWs' complaints, problems encountered by the voters.

Screenshot of the article link circulating on Facebook.

While it is true that there were OFWs who's names were not included in the voters' list (the voter's registration machine malfunctioned, as confirmed by COMELEC Comm. Arthur Lim), and that some complained about undervotes, nothing on the video mentioned about a Smartmatic technician who admitted that the voting process was manipulated. The same article mentioned that the Smartmatic representative confessed it to a certain OFW Global Movement Secretary General Gerard Lapuz, but a simple google search did not yield anything about Lapuz and the organization.

The article was from okd2.com, a satirical website. What makes the website easily deceive people is because the articles they publish mix facts with fiction. Although its About page mentioned that they inject false information for entertainment, people take every detail as fact. I guess netizens are quite lazy not to verify that.