Filipinos know cheating during election. this is a fact of life. this usurps the popular will which is the very essence of a democartic institution.
Automated election is the asnwer 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 cecause 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, filipnos will no longer witness the reading of the ballots and the scores in the blackboard. After the voting, filipinos have tocontend 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!
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HOW, REALLY, DID MANUEL BAMBA VILLAR, JR. GET TO BE RICH? It may bear and serve the Filipino nation well to investigate and know that Manny Villar may actually have broken through from Tondo-ragged accountant to billionaire-rich presidentiable by allowing himself to be used as a foreign investor’s dummy in the Philippine real estate business. You see, the conduct of real estate business in the Philippines is made exclusive by law to Filipino citizens, necessarily because its affairs involve sensitive issues that affect territory, patrimony, and national security. Wasn’t that a debonair American who was smilingly visible every day at the offices of Crown Asia, Inc., way back before the Villars became political aspirants? Unfortunately, sighting American presence at the Crown Asia, Inc. organization deteriorates to zero visibility in hot election weather, especially nowadays! As Manny Villar embarked on a political career, it naturally became strategically imperative to avoid flaks of damaging controversy about being economically beholden to foreign influence, especially from nationalist camps of the likes of then Senator Teofisto Guingona Jr. who was one among legislators instrumental in passing general law limiting conduct of real estate business in the Philippines to Filipinos only. In fact, it was from 1997 to 1999 that the bespactacled, middle-aged, happy American investor (silent or express?) of Crown Asia, Inc. was last regularly observed at the 18th Floor of Cityland Herrera Tower. Most of us often have "humble," sometimes "rotten," beginnings; yet being transparent about such beginnings can do more good than harm. The key to the answer may reach as far back as auditing times with SGV, or perhaps good Senator Manuel Villar would like to comment on this matter at this time?
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