Maraming Salamat Po Comelec
Today’s Filipino youth will have to thank the Commission on Elections for ensuring that they too will have the chance to experience the joys of manual elections. If not for the Comelec’s incompetence, the younger generation of Filipinos will have been denied the opportunity to see firsthand how votes are rendered useless.
The older generations also owe the Comelec gratitude for once again they will see their right to suffrage disrespected.
Clearly, all Filipinos should bow down to the Comelec in recognition of its contribution to keeping feudalism alive in this great nation of ours. If not for its inability to insititute electoral reforms, Filipinos will no longer experience how it is to live in a society where guns, goons and gold reign supreme.
Thank you Comelec for not doing your job. You have once again done the Philippines a great disservice.
Tsk! Tsk!
Actually, they’ve got a great excuse. But perhaps we all know better and we all know what is really going on.
Lokohan na lang talaga ito.
What these people do not realize is that if we, the people, are not able to get the change we need and want through the means provided for in the Constitution, we will get it through other means.
Revolution.
But, whose revolution will it be? I wonder.
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COMELEC is inutile. They are not improving. The election and registration problems they encountered decades ago are exactly the same problems they have now. Is there no room for improvement in COMELEC?
As a first time voter, I cant accept any excuse from Comelec for not being able to cleanse the voters list as well as improve their registration process. Somebody asked a COMELEC official here in our place why they cant fast track the registration process. This official replied that they lacked DCMs and computers and what they actually have now are obsolete. For me, this answer is unacceptable. COMELEC just bid a billion worth of ballot counting machines. It means that they have more than enough funds to purchase additional registration machines and hire casual/contractual additional manpower to help conduct an effective registration process. Unless they use those funds for personal use..
I only have one thing to say, is there any brain working in COMELEC? Mag strategize naman kayo.
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lpgd Reply:
July 1st, 2009 at 6:11 am
thanks for visiting maria.
my opinion exactly. the comelec is inutile. they also do not have any foresight to plan ahead. should automation get scrapped for the 2010 elections, the comelec should at least move on immediately with planning the implementation of poll automation for the next election after 2010.
related to this, i got to talk to a member of a certain all-filipino group that has been trying to bid for the automation project since the time of ben “burjer” abalos. this group has a software-based election system that can be used on ordinary computers. he said the system costs a lot less because it does not require specialized hardware. the person i spoke with said the comelec’s response to their proposal was dismissive at best. he summed up the comelec’s attitude with a question supposedly asked of them by a comelec official. the question was: “may foreign partner ba kayo?” i’m just not sure though if this is the comelec’s fault or if the law itself mandates that automation be carried out by a foreign entity.
anyway, i’m not saying this group’s system is the best because i really don’t know that for a fact. however, i think the comelec should have at least given the group a fair chance. in fact that’s all the group wants — to be able to show the comelec how their system works. the group even offered to let their software examined by i-t experts and hackers.
in any case, i really think the comelec should start planning NOW for the automation of the next election after 2010.
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