Cheating Philippine Election 2010
February 27, 2010
This has been considered part of the game, provided you do not get caught and if caught you are prepared to defend yourself in court.
Filipinos know cheating during election. this is a fact of life. this usurps the popular will which is the very essence of a democratic institution.
Automated election is the answer to this. But even if there is an automated election, automated cheating is still possible.
In some areas in the country, voters have never seen even a calculator much less a computer. And because there is now automation in our election , people have to deal with a new type of machine. A machine that swallows their ballots, makes a score and piles up the score needed for the municipal, provincial and national canvass.
Is the computerized voting procedure easy? In some areas in the Philippines, electricity is lacking and maybe no transmission signals. Would automation be still possible?
When automation takes place, Filipinos will no longer witness the reading of the ballots and the scores in the blackboard. After the voting, Filipinos have to contend going to their homes in the evening not knowing who won the elections.
Will automation provide us Filipinos more faith or revitalized faith in out electoral process?
We will try to answer this in 2010!
