AFTER months of hearing campaign jingles and listening to the promises of candidates, today is the day Filipinos will make their voices heard as we troop to the election precincts.
Of course, INQUIRER.net and other media outlets will be working hard to make sure the voice of the voters will be heard loud and clear, and, in our case as the most visited Philippine news website, by Filipinos all over the world.
As you’ll notice, the INQUIRER.net homepage has already switched to our Eleksyon 2007 special coverage, which will include the potent virtual weapon we’ve used to provide a blow-by-blow coverage of major news events since the days of Estrada’s impeachment trial in 2000 — the running account.
INQUIRER.net executive editor and Infotech editor Leo Magno (the “Father of the running account,” heh) and I will be taking turns doing the Eleksyon 2007 running account. Sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that seven years have passed since I started doing the running account during the impeachment trial of former president Joseph Estrada, months before the then INQ7.net was even formally incorporated and launched.
Seven years later, INQUIRER.net remains as committed to providing the best online coverage. Apart from reading about what’s happening, make sure your voice is also heard by posting comments and even your own blog entries in our Eleksyon 2007 blog.
Check out this article for more on our Eleksyon 2007 coverage. And click here to access the regular INQUIRER.net homepage.
May 16th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
Hi jing, we’ve been posting results in the running account, but we’ve just set up a stand-alone section for it here:
http://eleksyon2007a.inquirer.net/localtally.htm
Hope this helps.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:43 am
how do i get to local/municipal level election results? are there any?
May 14th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] @play: Eleksyon 2007 running account [...]
May 14th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
It’s sad to think though, that even with all the technological advances we’ve made with regards to elections - we have Google-powered online election mapping, a quick count backed by an IT university, mobile phone access to breaking news, blogs and portals detailing the running account of the election - we are still hopelessly conducting our elections manually.
We’re supposed to be marketing ourselves - and this country - as the next IT hub, and yet we could not even automate how we vote.