To COMELEC.. syanawa!

Two weeks from now, people from all over the Philippine territory will vote for their new sets of leaders and legislators. The COMELEC, a constitutional body tasked in conducting the polls says that it can conduct a credible election. Reports of malfunctioning PCOS Machines and the probability of people being disenfranchised during the Election Day are feared to cause chaos and may result to failure of elections.

Political parties are calling for a parallel manual vote counts for fear that the PCOS machines would not work. LP and AbNoynoy’s handlers are conditioning the minds of the voters and peddling lies that they’re sure winners basing on the surveys. If AbNoynoy lose, it only means that he was cheated and will call on their supporters to do another EDSA. The Yellow Army, the people who were behind AbNoynoy’s presidential candidacy and people who were benefited by the Cory Aquino presidency called for parallel vote counts. This is their way of securing AbNoynoy’s victory. The plan is, if the manual count will not tally the electronic count, they would walk out (de ja vu of the 1986 Snap Election) and declare AbNoynoy’s victory by any means.

In a way, the Yellow army, LP and AbNoynoy’s camp is not so sure of victory. They must have realized by now that in the Philippine setting, as Emil Jurado says, The Golden Rule always applies. He who has gold wins. It could be Villar who has money or Gibo who has the machinery.

This is why COMELEC should never fail in the conduct of this election. It’s a momentous event since it’ll be the first time that votes are counted electronically. The credibility of the election process is at stake.