Truly the 2010 automated elections highlighted some unpredictable scenarios in Philippine politics. The latest election was historic since it is the electorates first time to move on apart from the manual casting and counting of ballots. The automated election zoomed the manner of counting and at the same time created a fuzz over the unpredictable trends of the candidates rise and fall of their popularity ratings. The fast tally of results made everybody hooked at their TV sets, radios and internets to look over the unpredicted fight between candidates.
The automated election has made the counting of nationwide votes faster because in just a span of two days the counting immediately bears millions as it proceeds. This scenario is very remarkable because as compared to the manual counting it takes several weeks or a month for the sluggish counting to proceed.
Yes, the automated election was successful but like any other elections, discrepancies and other problems are still found. People have been rendered to wait under the heat of the sun to vote in their precincts. They have been against the clustering of precincts wherein there are five precincts per PCOS machine. Some were impatient and perceived this kind of system as drudgery. I guess these kind of people never knew what it takes to take care of this heirloom of democracy of which our ancestors fought for the posterity. I mean, waiting for some kind of six to five hours is incomparable to six years rule of whoever that president is! For goodness sake! With no Shenanigans and run-arounds elections or suffrage is our right, our privilege. It is our power to choose the next leader who could make or break democracy and development in this country. this country have been put into double jeopardy when Arroyo succeeded and was elected into office. We can’t afford for a “triple jeopardy”! this is our chance to elect the next capable, able, accountable and responsible efficient leader! I can’t believe that the others were so oblivious.
I can’t blame some electorates and other Board of Election Inspectors (BEI’s) in Mindanao and other areas when they choose not to participate in the election because they were scared by violence and were afraid for some strayed bullets from the exchange of gunshots between the spoilers and the enforcers of the law. Those spoilers that could have been the pets of potential cheaters. These cheaters are capable for they have jeopardized our country.
There have been reports of failing PCOS machines, questionable initiatives of BEIs, failures of transmittal of results, and so on. Failure to vote is the most fatal when these people became impatient and indifferent as they were closer to being nihilistic. The others failed to vote because the PCOS machine didn’t recognized their votes but of exceeding the numbers of the supposed to be shaded candidates in their ballots and too much pressure upon shading their ballots.
The political trend between candidates as reflected in their unofficial tally of votes catches my attention. In the race for presidency Gibo ran short to the fourth place maybe because his party LAKAS-KAMPI is equivocal to Pres. Arroyo. I expected a Noynoy-Villar fight but it turned out that Villar and Gibo are the closer competitors while Erap and Noynoy are still game on for the presidency. I pity those people who still wanted to place an incompetent leader. The Noynoy-Erap fight could have been more exciting if the Mindanao’s voting turn-out is met.
Chiz Escudero, a popular figure who backed out his candidacy for presidency, made an impact to the Noy-Mar tandem when he endorsed the Noy-Bi tandem. The unofficial tally of vice-presidential results displays a neck to neck fight between Binay who comes first and Roxas who comes second. Reports about the factions within the Liberal party have caused Mar’s weakened fight wherein some LP members supports a Noy-Bi tandem.
Legarda whom Roxas sought as his strong competitor was taken third in the race. Roxas overlooked Binay as a threat. The SWS and Pulse Asia Survey from December to January validates the trend. Legarda’s interesting popularity rating suddenly became popular when she choose to run with Villar as the vice president of Villar’s ticket. Loren’s flamboyant display of being ‘balimbing’ caused her downfall when in this incident people cols have questioned her integrity because she was with the others who scrutinized Villar with his C5 road extension scheme and then suddenly she became Villar’s electioneering partner.
The scenario of presidential candidates like Villar and Gibo conceding their defeat is very remarkable. In just a span of almost two days with almost 85% of unofficial COMELEC figures of ballots counted and transmitted the populace now focuses thei eyes between tow candidates Noynoy and Erap. Noynoy is more advanced than the latter.
The twelve slots for senatoriables are a bunch of old, returning and re-electionist senators except for Guingona III, son of former vice president Guingona and Bongbong Marcos the son of the late President Ferdinand Marcos. Ralph Recto is also a new one. Marcos is remarkable when he transcended between the sixth and the seventh slot. Very interesting! But the first and second slot got the Santa Banana!
Truly the 2010 election have created some fuzz about the electioneering mantras, slogans and the underlying politicized agendas of the hopeful candidates. The automated kind of election has a lot more and long way to go to say that the Philippines election has truly changed for the better. Yes, it has zoomed the quick counts but the underlying question is, was their a guarantee that there was a clean and honest election?
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