TOMORROW promises to be action-packed. A very personal account is by Galatea’s Favorite Sky, where she describes her ordeal as her boyfriend ended up hurriedly sent to Lanao. Indeed, it’s going to be All eyes on Lanao del Sur, as Alleba Politics points out. Going further, Calling All Filipinos. Lanao Del Sur Needs You! Tingog.com says, while Patsada Karajaw says Dracula’s guarding the blood banks.
Sometimes in frustration, we end up hearing people say, extreme measures are called for. Violence and cheating are the problems, and the worst part is, the places where voting isn’t relatively clean and honest end up dragging down the rest.
1. If anyone dies in an election-related act of violence, should all the candidates be punished? Declare no elections, and install an OIC? Meaning, if you want civilian officials to lead your province, better conduct a campaign and an election without violence, otherwise it’s martial law for you until the province gets its act together?
2. If a precinct can’t produce and submit an ER within 24 hours of the polls closing, should the government declare sorry, better luck next time, we won’t count your votes because you couldn’t count your votes in time?
3. If the voters in Muslim Mindanao want to vote properly, but their leaders, in cooperation with national officials, keep screwing it up, is the solution, as follows?
But immediate solutions — or deterrents in time for future elections — can be put in place, said Basman, president of the Philippine Islamic Center for Moderate Muslims and of the Mindanao Research Institute.
He suggested that elections be held in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ahead of the rest of the country, the way it is done for overseas and local absentee voters.
A purge of shady election officials in the local level can also be initiated by focusing the so-called “lifestyle check” on these individuals after an election, Basman said.
The saying goes, “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.” But if the price of winning is never so high, as to prevent winning at any costs, should the price then be: if you can’t play, nobody will win. Period. No exceptions. You can think about how you messed it up for three years, but until then, it’s martial law in your locality.
But then you see caffeine sparks and a news report shown on Australian TV, and you realize: hold on, who would enforce martial law?
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5 Feedbacks on "Kamay na bakal?"
tagumpay
The Whole Country is need to have GOVERNMENT that will EMPLOY KAMAY na BAKAL. Politicians are killing each other just to get the position which is similar to Afghanistan.
Yes, POLOICIANS on those areas should banned from the election and install and OIC as a stop gap
The electoral process and the implementing system in our country are product of the previous politicians that have personal interest in the election in itself. The last senate and congress proved that when they stalled the computerization of elections for their advantage.
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brice887
Elections are simple, if people could follow procedures. Thus, procedures should be made simple enough, given well in advance and disseminated early. During election time, voting precincts should be well equiped, well laid out, organized, and staffed by well prepared and trained education professionals only. If automation is in place, much better. These are givens. With so many elections past, I feel COMELEC is aware of these, should plan the necessary training, allocate resources and secure areas where historically, it has been an election hotspot. The recurrence of these issues again and again are plain and simple incompetence of people tasked to oversea and regulate these events. I feel as early as now, COMELEC should plan for the next election if ever they’ve learned from their mistakes.
mendeville
just a question,
why can’t the philippines have the machines being used in the USA for elections? I know it will not solve all the problems but it will help a lot- lives of people. Just a thought.
OFW in Afghanistan
I am very sure that I do not want Martial Law. At the outset, it appears that there is none in the Philippines but people like Palparan, Gonzales and the rest of Gloria’s cohorts in the military has proven otherwise.
Tagumpay
I am sorry to disappoint you but politicians here in Afghanistan are much more decent than the ones we have there.
Mendeville
Nothing stops us from getting those machines, unfortunately, for us, we have Abalos at the helm of COMELEC. If we got those machines before the election, the opportunity to cheat would be difficult. Abalos still have to figure out, how to use those machines to cheat! Once, he has done that, for sure, we will get those machines!
Wow! I have never been this cynical. What has the COMELEC done to me?
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