Election time!

I have been monitoring the electoral process in the Philippines as early as 6am (Manila time) – I had my reservations when I heard and read how the initial tests of the PCOS voting machines failed a few days before Election Day. Also, the manner of clustering the list of voters per precinct was also dubious from the beginning. How do these Comelec experts expect 1200 Filipino voters in some precinct areas to vote in a 12 hrs maximum time? This electoral process will end up like a bad joke, and a big insult to the Filipino people if its result fail to register the needed number of voters by the end of the day.

This whole process is truly not very well planned. Or was it really planned to have it this way? A failed electoral process means extra presidential mandate for GMA, right? Could it be the case? Nah … I certainly hope it isn’t so. But then again, anything “magical” can happen right under our noses – especially in the Philippines as it is.